willifixit Posted November 15, 2002 Report Share Posted November 15, 2002 I am receiveing a failure on a Disaster Recovery Restore on an XP machine. The message is "A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking the license for this computer. Error Code: 0x800900006" The hard drive was intermittant on this machine, requiring a replacement drive. What I did was this: 1. Do a full backup of the C drive of the machine (it had a D also) 2. Prepare a Disaster Recovery bootable disk 3. Shut the machine down 4. Replace the "intermittant" drive with a new, formatted drive 5. Run the disaster recovery process completely The process seems to work fine until the machine reboots after the restore process. At that time, the machine starts up, I get the logon screen. When I log in, the system pauses for some time, then displays the above dialog box, and then logs me off again. If I log on addtional times, there is no pause, but it still logs me off. How do I fix this? Thanks, Will Adams Details: Retrospect 5.6 with latest driver pack Sony DVD+RW drive for backup CD-ROM for bootable startup disk Windows XP with SP1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted November 18, 2002 Report Share Posted November 18, 2002 The restored registry is not dealing with the new hard drive properly. Please see the following Microsoft article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310794 Because the Registry contains hardware instruction specific to your original hardware, Dantz cannot guarentee that restoring the old registry to new hardware will be 100% successful. In almost all cases, restoring to a new hard drive should be problem free. However, this appears to be a known issue with Dell computers and Windows XP according to the Microsoft site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willifixit Posted November 18, 2002 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2002 Thanks for the reply. I had already seen that Microsoft article, and the error message number, as well as the cause are not the same - only a fragment of the error message words match. Additionally, this not a Dell machine I am still looking for an answer. I do not see why, on identical types of drives this will happen. Still hoping for a solution... Will Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted November 19, 2002 Report Share Posted November 19, 2002 Was the copy of Windows XP activated before the backup? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willifixit Posted November 20, 2002 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2002 Yes, it was activated. Will Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted November 20, 2002 Report Share Posted November 20, 2002 Does the new drive have the same number of partitions and same size? The problem you are experiencing has to do with your XP license and new hardware. If it doesn't match exactly the product activation may not accept the system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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