Checking license for WinXP

[John Myers]

When booting into a dual-boot installation of WinXP on a
second drive from the original CD, I get a message that a
problem prevents Win from accurately checking the license,
Error Code 0x80090006. There's no help offered for this
code in the Knowledge Base. Any ideas?

Thanx,
John in Milwaukee

 

[Jetro]

As Jerold Schulman explains,
"This problem is the result of the hardware ID on the restored installation
being different from the hardware hash calculated for the current hardware.
To resolve this problem, perform an in-place upgrade of Windows XP and
reactivate the Windows XP license."

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=315341
How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP

 

[Darrell Gorter[MSFT]]

Hello Jetro,
This is more than likely a drive letter change. This has nothing to do
with the hardware hash.
The drive has a different GUID so it gets assigned a new drive letter, so
the OS doesn't load some of the dlls that are needed by activation.
Since these dlls do not load, activation cannot properly work. Activation
in this case is just the messenger for an underlying problem with the
system.
See this article for resetting the drive lettering:
223188 How To Restore the System/Boot Drive Letter in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=223188

Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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[Jetro]

Hi Darrell,
That could be the reason too. As I've already revealed, John screwed up
somehow the installation made on X: (sic!) drive.
Apparently Jerold S. would update and extend related info as well if not
yet.
Regarding to the MS KB article 223188: I am glad MS has renamed it once
again and now it's less misleading in the layman terms )

Thanks and regards