Need Help. MS license no good on my backup

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I am trying Ghost to backup my 30G XP drive. I tried it a week ago,
and it worked just fine. I even manually switched the drives to
assure that the backup was bootable and usable, and it was. In fact,
I used it for a day to be more comfortable with the backup really
working.

I am using XP with all fixes, and the two HDDs are masters (Primary &
Slave IDE).

Last night I did it again, but when I tried to boot the backup drive,
I got and keep getting the error:

A PROBLEM IS PREVENTING WINDOWS FROM ACCURATELY CHECKING THE LICENSE
FOR THIS COMPUTER. ERROR CODE: 0X80090006.

Unless someone out there can suggest something, I will have to call
MS I guess, although right now I don't have their 800# (I'll have to
search for it).

Thanks
 
Hi.

This problem is caused by the fact that the Hardware ID on your second hard
drive is not the same as the one on your first Hard drive so Windows cannot
verify the License because the Hardware hash is not the same as the original
Hash that was used to activate the product.

You will need to run an in-place upgrade or repair install on your backup
disk before it will run.

According to MS this problem is by design apparently there are some hard
coded paths to C:\windows that may cause some systems to fail.

Hope this is helpful

Rudi
 
Hi.

This problem is caused by the fact that the Hardware ID on your second hard
drive is not the same as the one on your first Hard drive so Windows cannot
verify the License because the Hardware hash is not the same as the original
Hash that was used to activate the product.

You will need to run an in-place upgrade or repair install on your backup
disk before it will run.

According to MS this problem is by design apparently there are some hard
coded paths to C:\windows that may cause some systems to fail.

Hope this is helpful

Rudi
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Rudi - thanks for response. I think I can do a 'repair install', but
a 'in-place upgrade' bothers me.

Internet site
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/xp_in_place_upgrade.htm

says:

1. From Windows insert the XP CD into the CD player.
2. Choose install
3. Select upgrade
4. Follow prompts and when asked for CD key, supply a valid CD key.
5. Continue setup to completion and activate over the internet if
necessary.
6. All updates and hot fixes will need to be reapplied.


What worries me is that (1) if I activate over the web (again!), then
will my first HD then work if I switch back? (2) What then? Will my
first HD no longer run? If not, that is a terrible situation! If I
do that activate, all I am trying to do is VERIFY that my backup is
valid before I store it on a shelf to use if and when. (3) Repeating
all the updates and hot fixes seems awful as well. After all, I
already did all that once! (4) Lastly, this backup worked flawlessly
a week ago with the SAME HDDs!

H e l p!
 
Hi.

This problem is caused by the fact that the Hardware ID on your second hard
drive is not the same as the one on your first Hard drive so Windows cannot
verify the License because the Hardware hash is not the same as the original
Hash that was used to activate the product.

You will need to run an in-place upgrade or repair install on your backup
disk before it will run.

According to MS this problem is by design apparently there are some hard
coded paths to C:\windows that may cause some systems to fail.

Hope this is helpful

Rudi
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Go figure!

I remembered that last week, when I did a successful backup, I had the
source HDD as Primary Master and the target HDD as Primary Slave.

Everything I read says you should have drives in a copy scenario on
different channels for the sake of speed, so this time I put the
target HDD as Secondary Master. Simplifies jumper management anyway
(none). And as I said earlier, when I switched the HDDs to verify
that the backup indeed worked, I got the license problem.

Anyway, I tried the backup again a few minutes ago, with both drives
on the Primary IDE as last week. When I switched the drives to verify
the backup, guess what? No error - it booted just fine. In fact I am
posting this from that (target) drive right now (it is c drive now of
course).

Go figure! Why wouldn't things work with two Master HDDs?

Wee
 
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