wolfman Posted October 15, 2003 Share Posted October 15, 2003 Hi,I wanted to clone my primary XP hard drive to a bigger one, so I bought DriveImage 7 to do the job. It did it fine, but when I booted on the new hard drive, windows XP yielded"A Problem is Preventing Windows from Accurately Checking the License for this Computer - 0x80090006", all legit softwares however. Then XP stops booting.Microsoft says that each time XP boots, it computes a hash of the hard drive's ID, and if it does not correspond to the one saved, it will not boot. I searched on the net as well, nothing useful is said either.Any ideas? Especially from people who had the same problem and solved it without re-installing everything or losing system settings.Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfman Posted October 15, 2003 Author Share Posted October 15, 2003 Hey, never bother guys, I found this on the net (thanks Tony).Hope this helps you if you encountered the same problem.-------------------------------------This is not a problem because I have done the very same thing. I use to havea copy of WinME on a 27GB drive and a copy of WinXP on a 6GB drive. Once Iwas happy with XP I wanted to swap it to the 27GB drive because it wasfaster.I have used BootItNG from www.bootitng.com as my paritioning tool and bootmanager for several years, and this allows each OS to see itself as drive C:when it is booted. The only problem with swapping XP to a different drive isthat it records a signature for each partition, and if it sees its originalpartition at boot time it will take this as drive C: and assign itself thenext available drive letter, such as D. This causes the following errormessage to appear:"A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking the licence forthis computer. Error code: 0x80090006"This can cause problems to arise in the following situations:- A bootable Win2K/XP partition is duplicated and the original partition isin the MBR at the time the duplicated partition is booted.- You slide or move a bootable Win2K/XP partition and another partition isadded or moved to start where the bootable Win2K/XP partition was.The method I used to clear the disk signatures was to run BootItNG then dothe following:- Enter the "Work with Partitions" Dialog.- Choose the correct hard drive.- Click the "View MBR" button- Click the "Clear Sig" button- Click the "Apply" button.Now you can boot into XP in its new position. If BootMagic does not allowyou to do this then I suggest that you throw it away and by BootItNGinstead.Hope this helps.Tony Marston------------------------------------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ButlerKevinD Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 We use Symantec Ghost v7.5 Enterprise. We tried using Drive Image, but as a friend of mine says, it's one big steaming pile of (insert expletive here). We have never had a problem with Ghost, and have used it to image serveral thousand drives. Look into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahuggett Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 I tried BootIt NG after reading the suggestion above. What a great program - it fixed my"A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking the licence for this computer. Error code: 0x80090006"problem and also another boot sector related problem which prevented a cloned machine from booting in to Windows XP.I've added to my essential utilities Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gericb Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 Howdy guys! I do not know about any of these other products, but I use Partition Magic 8 and it works like a champ EVERY TIME! When I copy the partition over to another drive, it reboots with no errors or anything. Just my two cents. geb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvette Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 With those results, It should be 5 Dollars! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imallit Posted February 12, 2004 Share Posted February 12, 2004 concerning the 0x80090006 error it is an mbr problem that can be fixed by updating the mbr , it just worked for me ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunil Posted February 12, 2004 Share Posted February 12, 2004 so ghost is not a viable option if i want to image my hdds, see specs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted February 12, 2004 Share Posted February 12, 2004 why not? You have to break the mirror first in some cases and then turn it back on after applying the image back to the drive but other than that it should work fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oh_Kay Posted February 22, 2004 Share Posted February 22, 2004 Ok guy's, I'm stuck...I am upgrading my 80Gb SATA to a 160Gb SATA and I have the same problem listed here... 'A problem is preventing windows yada yada yada'I'm stuck, can someone please tell me in english, what I need to do to get this to boot off my new HD ?I used windows Ghost, and the copy went fine, the drive is there and intact..It still won't let me boot in to it however...Please don't repeat anything that's already been typed in this post, as I don't understand half of it as it is, ENGLISH !!!! please....I assumed ghost would do it as others here have said they use ghost and it works for them, so why isn't it working ?Anybody ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1Bowtie Posted February 22, 2004 Share Posted February 22, 2004 Oh Kay if you just changed hard drives you might have to go into bios and change the drive it is booting on. Might work i'm not an expert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oh_Kay Posted February 22, 2004 Share Posted February 22, 2004 Thanks for that response Bowtie, but it's not the BIOS..After the Ghost 'Clone' the computer reboots, at that time I pulled the lead for the original boot drive and placed it in the new drive, so it's on the same physical location on the Promise SATA bus as the original boot drive was... the original drive is no longer connected...It finds it ok, it boots ok, but when windows loads I get this confounded 'A problem is preventing windows checking the licence on this 'puter'I have tried this umpteen times without success now, same thing every time..On my Apple G5 I just need to select everything on the HD and copy it to a new HD, it will then boot from that HD without complaining... No tools needed..Can someone tell me how to config Ghost to do this as the straight Clone does NOT work !Or tell me what I need to do to this drive to get it to boot from the Clone I already have on it ?Will FixMBR from Command Console fix it ?Or do I need to use one of the SID changing utils out there that I don't really understand ? Symantecs web site said that SID Changer was part of Ghost and I'm at a complete loss as to why this ain't working... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted February 23, 2004 Share Posted February 23, 2004 Have you changed any other hardware in the system since you originally loaded it? You may be running up against the hardware change rules with Windows XP, try reactivating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techtype Posted February 23, 2004 Share Posted February 23, 2004 Have not used Ghost in a while. as I have moved on from it. However, when I did use it, it included a utility called "gdisk". You would boot from your ghost disk and run "gdisk /mbr" to rewrite the mbr for Ghost. Try it on the drive already cloned ---won't hurt and may help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajcarter Posted February 23, 2004 Share Posted February 23, 2004 I use have been using Ghost 2002 and Ghost 2003 and PQ Drive image 5 since XP arrived. Sometimes with a corrupted drive I will not be able to clone or image a drive but usually one or the other will work. I have never had a problem with Windows rejecting the new drive. In fact, often I will set up a new installation of XP on one of my drives to be sure that the computer is going to be happy with it before I clone it to the machine that I am working on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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