Activation License Problem on Backup Hard Drive

[Guest]

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 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 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 prior to yesterday morning is used but I
can't if any image file after yesterday morning is used.

 

[Thorsten Matzner]

Yesterday morning, I made a 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.

This may help: ""Error 0x80090006" When You Restart Windows XP After
You Restore Your Computer from Backup"
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=821401).

 

[Guest]

Thank you for responding Thorsten but the link results in in "article not
available". Also searches of the KB for the error # result in crypto and SQL
server related results and searches for the text in the title produce no
results. Any additional info or help will also be appreciated.

Richard

 

[Thorsten Matzner]

Thank you for responding Thorsten but the link results in in "article not
available". Also searches of the KB for the error # result in crypto and SQL
server related results and searches for the text in the title produce no
results. Any additional info or help will also be appreciated.

The article is only available in German currently. Check this site for
some information: http://www.pcbanter.net/showthread.php?t=97377

 

[Guest]

The article is only available in German currently. Check this site for
some information: http://www.pcbanter.net/showthread.php?t=97377

Thank you Thorsten. I may try to get through the German article (I can
sometimes get enough to understand ). The info I was trying to get would
be more about "why this is happening" and "how can I prevent it from
happening" rather than how to recover with minimal damage after it has
happened. So far, my primary HDD is OK and the backup is of questionable
value. I wanted the backup to be such that all I need to do to recover is to
remove the crashed primary and reboot (I backup my data daily on several
media).

 

[Thorsten Matzner]

Thank you Thorsten. I may try to get through the German article (I can
sometimes get enough to understand ). The info I was trying to get would
be more about "why this is happening" and "how can I prevent it from
happening"

As far as I can see from the MSKB article, this is a side-effect of
the Product Activation and cannot be worked around.

 

[Guest]

.............
As far as I can see from the MSKB article, this is a side-effect of
the Product Activation and cannot be worked around.

Sigh. As an engineer, I support the idea that people (and companies) get
paid for their IP but it is a shame that a company with the capability of
Microsoft would do something that causes people much aggravation and lost
time. Of course, if they would produce s/w that didn't require a miriade of
updates every time you reinstall then it wouldn't be so bad.