"Nehmo Sergheyev" wrpte"
Didn't work.
I assumed the copy from old HD to new HD I had previously
done with MaxBlast was the same as the copy it would do if I
ran the program again, so I just proceeded with the remaining steps.
I moved the jumpers to make the new drive master
I removed the jumper to make the old drive slave

I switched positions of the drives on the ATA cable to
Black {end} connector to New HD
Grey {middle} connector to Old HD

I first started without the old drive connected.
Windows XP began to start but stopped short and produced the
Windows Product Activation box saying there was a problem with
WPA, error code 0x80090006 .

Just to make sure the disconnection of the old drive had nothing
to do with it, I tried again this time with both drives connected as
described above. The same error developed.

So I returned things back the way they we jumpers old=master,
new=slave ; ATA cable, black end to old , grey middle to new.
Now things work as befo the OS is still on the old HD.

My understanding of Win XP WPA is from
http://aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm .
When I installed XP (up form ME) on this machine, I had
already added a NIC and some RAM. Now I'm trying to add
a HD. So the only change in hardware categories is the HD.
That shouldn't be enough to trigger WPA error.

I'll have to call Maxtor and maybe Microsoft tomorrow. It
frustrates me that these companies with global scope should
have such narrow tech support hours. The weekends and
after-normal-business-hours should not be dead time.

It's sure taking a long time just to get a new drive in.


I never had any luck with using MaxBlast to make a bootable
copy of a WinXP drive. Drive Image 2002 has worked, although
only if the source and destination drives are on the same MoBo
IDE channel. (It never did work in any way using ATA133 PCI
controller card channels.) BTW, two different tech reps at Maxtor
commented to me that MaxBlast "isn't very good". But... people's
mileage does vary.

*TimDaniels*