Replacing Hard drive on XP system

[sbrews]

I have a system running XP Pro. It has 2 hard disks in it. One of the disks, the boot disk, is starting to have intermittent problems (its a few years old). I would like to duplicate the current boot disk onto a new disk. This new disk would then replace the original.

I have made several attempts to do this and either end up with a disk that wont boot or end up with this error:

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

More can be read about this error at:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;821401&Product=winxp

If I try the recommended fixes outlined in the above link, I consistantly end up with a disk that wont boot.

So in summary:

Has anyone successfully replaced a boot disk running XP Pro?
If so, how?

any info is appreciated.

scott

 

[bcastner]

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[nate2345]

bcastner,

can you update the link that you mentioned above - it's not pointing to the right place. I'm having the same issue

thanks,
nate

 

[bcastner]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310794&Product=winxp

 

[linney]

The manufacturer of your new hard drive should have on their site free software to copy the old hard drive to the new one.

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