"Error 0x80090006" When You Restart Windows XP After You Restore Your Computer f

Hello folks,
my hard drive got corrupted and i moved image of it to the
new one. After restarting my computer it came up with:

A problem is preventing windows from accurately checking
the license for this computer. ERROR 0x80090006

Now, i've read Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 821401
which describes some of the fixes; however, they all seem
to result in data loss. Since this is my primary disk and
it has whole lot of info/programs which would be fairly
painfull to re-install is there any other fixes such as
rebuilding registry or forcing windows to rebuild hardware
id.

Thanks,

Not sure what you mean by moved the image, if windows xp was corrupted on
the origninal hard disk, if you did an image copy, you'd have move the
corruption, or did you restore from an image backup that you took before the
corruption?

Did you try running chkdsk over the corrupt disk, although it should have
run automatically.

How did you perform the copy, was it via backup media or direct from the old
hard disk to the new one, whatever happens you still have the old hard disk
and/or the media image copy, so what exactly do you lose by doing a repair
install (In place upgrade).

Remember this is a repair operation, you are not reformating and
reinstalling from scratch, the windows xp setup program just deletes windox
xp files, while retaining settings and other files and programs, and
reinstalls them, you;ll need to reactivate.

Its easy to run a repair, shove in the release cd, boot from it, follow
instructions as if you are doing a fresh install, just after the hit f8 to
confirm license acceptance, setup scans for existing windows installations,
if it finds one it offers you the option to repair it.

Paul


"Dimitry" wrote in message
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Hello folks,
my hard drive got corrupted and i moved image of it to the
new one. After restarting my computer it came up with:

A problem is preventing windows from accurately checking
the license for this computer. ERROR 0x80090006

Now, i've read Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 821401
which describes some of the fixes; however, they all seem
to result in data loss. Since this is my primary disk and
it has whole lot of info/programs which would be fairly
painfull to re-install is there any other fixes such as
rebuilding registry or forcing windows to rebuild hardware
id.

Thanks,