Trying to swap laptop HDDs and getting were results...

Ok I have a HP Pavillion dv6345us and its using Vista Home Premium (32bit). The stock Hard Drive is a 160 gig and I have recently bought a 500 gig due to basically having cash on hand and also wanting to play around with linux, with out buying a new computer, I i am planning on just dual booting.

1. MY CD DRIVE DOES NOT WORK!!!! so using a boot disk is out of the question.

What i have done is I have made an Image of my 160 gig HDD with drive image XML from Runtime software and stored it on an external hard drive. I have hook my 500 gig HDD to a desktop at my house and formatted it and partitioned it, all of which are bigger then the partitions in my 160 gig HDD. I have also restored the image onto the new 500 gig HDD. When i put the 500 gig HDD into my laptop it comes up with an error and says the boot failed or something of that nature.

i will post im bout 10 minutes exactly what it says, but i will have to switch the HDDs out one more time.

anything that may or may not help is welcome.

thanks

-#s

 

when I boot it doesn't even make it to the loading screen. It says the following:
pxe-e61: media test failure, check cable
Pxe-m0f: exiting intel boot agent.
Invalid partition table