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I just ghosted/copied the old image of my 30gb Maxtor drive with winxp onto a new wd 80gb drive. I used the program that came with the new wd hd. It gave me a few options, I chose to copy a disk to a new disk making the new disk a bootable one. However when i get to the log on screen and select log in, i get a screen that goes blue and after a min or so a message pops up and says: A problem is preventing windows from accurately checking the licence for this computer. Error Code: x800900006.

Any ideas?

Thanks
 
Are you using the same computer (just enlarging the disk) or trying to go to
another computer? XP may have some issues if you are trying to go to
another PC. All the drivers on the Motherboard would be incorrect. You may
need to go into safe mode and unload everything, then reboot normal.

Did you format the new drive, then run scandisk before restoring the image?

I'm not sure what the problem is but my experience with ghost is this.
I have a boot disk (3-1/2 diskette) that has ghost on it. It is a very
small (but powerful) program.
If you create a ghost image by ghosting the partition (not whole disk) then
you can restore the partition onto the larger (new) disk. I've done this a
thousand times with virtually no problems. It is important that .... if you
ghost the "C" drive, that you should try to restore to a "C" drive.
Although their are ways around that too.

Disadvantage of my method:
To create a ghost image of a partition (and keep the image), you would be
required to store the image on another partition. Meaning you need a D
partition on you disk that is large enough to do this. Most XP images are
very large and copying them to a CD is not realistic. Once you have the
image on a partition, it would be easier to reboot with both disks attached.
You then restore the image, turn the computer off, reset the jumpers so the
new drive is master, remove the old drive... then reboot.

If this info. is no help to you, I'm sorry. I hope someone else can help
too.


M4v3r1ck said:
I just ghosted/copied the old image of my 30gb Maxtor drive with winxp
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onto a new wd 80gb drive. I used the program that came with the new wd hd.
It gave me a few options, I chose to copy a disk to a new disk making the
new disk a bootable one. However when i get to the log on screen and select
log in, i get a screen that goes blue and after a min or so a message pops
up and says: A problem is preventing windows from accurately checking the
licence for this computer. Error Code: x800900006.
 
M4v3r1ck said:
I just ghosted/copied the old image of my 30gb Maxtor drive with
winxp onto a new wd 80gb drive. I used the program that came with the
new wd hd. It gave me a few options, I chose to copy a disk to a new
disk making the new disk a bootable one. However when i get to the
log on screen and select log in, i get a screen that goes blue and
after a min or so a message pops up and says: A problem is preventing
windows from accurately checking the licence for this computer. Error
Code: x800900006.

Any ideas?

Thanks
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See the following MSKB article for the fix.

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


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This is a good article but I think it depends on how you restore from a
backup.
The method I used.... Image a partition to create an Image... then restore
to another partition has worked very well going from a small drive to a
larger drive. Of course all systems I work on always have multiple drives
because I like to isolate the OS on a separate partition.

I was under the impression M4v3r1ck was using Ghost imaging software.
 
Sorry, I was actually using another software that came with the drive that apparently allowed me to ghost/copy an image. So perhaps then ghost wasn't the correct word to use there. Now when I try and boot from cd rom. It reads the cd, but comes up "Boot from ATAPI CD Rom, No emulation, Press any key to boot from CD......" then it just goes on to the log in screen where I have the problems. I've tried 3 different cd rom drives and they all do the same.
 
ahah...ya' tried to pulll a fast one on MS...backfired......remember one
copy of XP is only good for one PC at a time......ghost...yeh, right...
 
True!
But there's nothing like having a ghost image of your currents system stored
on another HD.
You know MS stuff is, one day it works... another day it doesn't. A backup
ghost image can save you lots of time (especially since HD are cheap these
days).
 
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