Any ideas on solving the following problem will be GREATLY appreciated.
I run Win XP Pro SP1 and have 2 multi-partition Hard Drives. Drive_0 is my
main drive and Drive_1 is a backup. The backup is intended to get me back
up and running quickly in the event of a disk crash or major corruption.
The active partition of Drive_0 (PROGRAM) is my OS and Program Disk. The
active partition of Drive_1 (PROGBAK) is an imaged backup of PROGRAM. The
idea is to have a backup drive that I can immediately boot from in the event
of HDD crash (it would also be used to restore or rebuild the main drive).
Until yesterday afternoon, there was no problem and either disk would boot
and work in the system whether or not the other disk was present.
Yesterday morning, I made a new disk image of PROGRAM and restored it to
PROGBAK and everything tested out fine. I then worked on the configuration
of
PROGRAM and made another image file. When I restored that one to PROGBAK
and tried to boot with PROGRAM unplugged I got a "Windows Product Activation"
window with the following message: "A problem is preventing Windows from
accurately checking the license for this computer. Error Code 0x80090006"
and I could not boot. I was, however, able to boot on PROGBAK if PROGRAM was
plugged in.
I can boot on PROGRAM whether or not PROGBAK is in the system. I can boot
from PROGBAK only if PROGRAM is in the system.
I can boot from PROGBAK without PROGRAM if any image file from yesterday
morning back is used but I can't if any image file after yesterday morning is
used.
One last item - attempts to re-activate windows result in "already
activated" which I'd expect because I must boot with PROGRAM connected to
actually get the activate link. This is really screwy because it was working
and then it just stopped.
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