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Bob Liss
I like to have two copies of Windows XP so I can use one
for software testing. I have two hard drives in my
computer and to accomplish this I cloned the contents of
one drive to the other and then established a dual boot
system allowing me to boot from either drive. The idea
was to use the second drive to try out new software while
keeping the first drive unaffected.
This setup mostly works, however, it isn't perfect since
the first drive is always identified as drive C while the
second drive is always identified as drive D. This occurs
regardless of which drive I boot from. The computer will
boot Windows XP from drive D but software installations
invariably deposit things to drive C although I can
specify the installation should go to drive D.
I disconnected the original drive and attempted to boot
from the second drive only so the first drive would not
be affected at all but was unable to boot from the second
drive apparently due to product activation limitations.
When booting from the cloned drive I got this error:
a problem is preventing windows from accurately checking
the license for this computer-error code 0x80090006.
Does anyone know if this is a limitation of product
activation. Is the activation key somehow tied in to the
first hard drive and won't work on the second hard drive?
The second hard drive was cloned a while ago and many
changes have taken place since so the two drives now have
quite a few differences. Would recloning the first drive
to the second drive allow me to boot solely from the
second drive? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Bob
for software testing. I have two hard drives in my
computer and to accomplish this I cloned the contents of
one drive to the other and then established a dual boot
system allowing me to boot from either drive. The idea
was to use the second drive to try out new software while
keeping the first drive unaffected.
This setup mostly works, however, it isn't perfect since
the first drive is always identified as drive C while the
second drive is always identified as drive D. This occurs
regardless of which drive I boot from. The computer will
boot Windows XP from drive D but software installations
invariably deposit things to drive C although I can
specify the installation should go to drive D.
I disconnected the original drive and attempted to boot
from the second drive only so the first drive would not
be affected at all but was unable to boot from the second
drive apparently due to product activation limitations.
When booting from the cloned drive I got this error:
a problem is preventing windows from accurately checking
the license for this computer-error code 0x80090006.
Does anyone know if this is a limitation of product
activation. Is the activation key somehow tied in to the
first hard drive and won't work on the second hard drive?
The second hard drive was cloned a while ago and many
changes have taken place since so the two drives now have
quite a few differences. Would recloning the first drive
to the second drive allow me to boot solely from the
second drive? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Bob