New Hard drive & win XP Activation problem

[Skyking1]

I have just installed a maxter 120Gig HD. I used Drive Image to transfer
data on 3 partitions from the old drive to 3 partitions on the new drive.
All went well until I try to boot from the new drive.
At present I have the old drive as master and the new drive as slave. When
booting I am asked to select boot from Windows XP pro or Windows XP Pro #1.
All is fine when I select Windows XP Pro, but when I select Windows XP Pro
#1, I get the following error
Windows Product Activation
A problem is preventing windows from accurately checking the license for
this computer. Error Code 0x80090006.
The same error occurs when I set the new HD as Master and disconnect the
old HD all together.
Is there a way around this problem?

 

[kurttrail]

I have just installed a maxter 120Gig HD. I used Drive Image to
transfer data on 3 partitions from the old drive to 3 partitions on
the new drive. All went well until I try to boot from the new drive.
At present I have the old drive as master and the new drive as slave.
When booting I am asked to select boot from Windows XP pro or Windows
XP Pro #1. All is fine when I select Windows XP Pro, but when I
select Windows XP Pro #1, I get the following error
Windows Product Activation
A problem is preventing windows from accurately checking the license
for this computer. Error Code 0x80090006.
The same error occurs when I set the new HD as Master and disconnect
the old HD all together.
Is there a way around this problem?

Try deleting the files wpa.dbl & wpa.bak from your NEW harddrive.
Reboot, and activate if prompted to do so.

MS can't make a database file that isn't easily corrupted, and MS in
their infinite lack of wisdom made PA dependant on their database
technology.

Trustworthy Computing & Microsoft are completely mutually exclusive.

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"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei!"

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have just installed a maxter 120Gig HD. I used Drive Image to transfer
data on 3 partitions from the old drive to 3 partitions on the new drive.
All went well until I try to boot from the new drive.
At present I have the old drive as master and the new drive as slave. When
booting I am asked to select boot from Windows XP pro or Windows XP Pro #1.

A simple copy like that is fine *provided* you now switch over and boot
the new drive direct. But if you by some means try to boot it where it
is, the information it has about the physical drive it is on is all at
cross purposes, and indeed it *may* be trying to get some items from the
original drive. So don't try. Swap the drives (indeed have the old one
disconnected in the first instance) and now things should be consistent

 

[Skyking1]

Well, I did all that and more, Alex. I now have the new HD as primary and
the old HD as secondary.
Still when I disconnect the old HD and try to boot with the new HD as
primary I keep getting the same error as before. I even assigned a new drive
letter to the old HD (old C:\ is now K:\) to no avail. The only way I can
boot is by keeping the old HD as secondary HD. I even deleted the wpa.* from
the new HD. Oh well.. guess I'll have to live with it for now.
Thanks anyway..

I have just installed a maxter 120Gig HD. I used Drive Image to transfer
data on 3 partitions from the old drive to 3 partitions on the new drive.
All went well until I try to boot from the new drive.
At present I have the old drive as master and the new drive as slave. When
booting I am asked to select boot from Windows XP pro or Windows XP Pro #1.

A simple copy like that is fine *provided* you now switch over and boot
the new drive direct. But if you by some means try to boot it where it
is, the information it has about the physical drive it is on is all at
cross purposes, and indeed it *may* be trying to get some items from the
original drive. So don't try. Swap the drives (indeed have the old one
disconnected in the first instance) and now things should be consistent

 

[Alex Nichol]

Well, I did all that and more, Alex. I now have the new HD as primary and
the old HD as secondary.
Still when I disconnect the old HD and try to boot with the new HD as
primary I keep getting the same error as before. I even assigned a new drive
letter to the old HD (old C:\ is now K:\) to no avail.

I can only conclude that something happened in the way that you
transferred things, so that the new drive partition is *not* a true
exact copy of the old one. If you are getting an extra instance in the
boot menu then something has changed the boot.ini file so that it has
two entries - and they are mixing things up. But I don't use Drive
Image so it is difficult to suggest just what has happened. (For this
sort of thing I use BootIT NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($30
shareware - 30 day full functional trial) which works entirely outside
any operating system, and a copy it makes is not distinguishable from
the original)