windows won't let me in. 1

[PeteWeedon]

I have just ghosted my (XP Pro SP1) disk contents to a new HDD, and it all seemed to go well enough, but now,when I boot, I can put my password in and all seems normal, but then this error message comes up

A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking the license for this computer. Error code: 0x80090006...and that is it, no further do we go.

whaddoIdonow?

I tried to go into recovery console, but then I am told that a disk read error occurred.

I don't have to partition and reform and ghost it all over again do I??

Best regards,

Pete W.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs - you haven't seen the latest Change Note!

 

[stduc]

Hmmmm I suspect - and it's only my best guess - you have either some corruption on your new HDD, or it's broken - as in hardware problem. Can you boot to your old disk and scan the new one for error?

If the new HDD comes up clean, then my next best guess is that you havea BIOS problem and may need to upgrade your bios to handle the new HDD.

You can re-boot the XP CD and get it to repair/re-install windows. Take care though as taking the wrong options will result in a complete re-install.

 

[bcastner]

http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBN/tip6800/rh6855.htm

A special case, in the interest of completeness:

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

 

[PeteWeedon]

thanks Bill,you are a treasure. I found that you had answered this q before ( when I looked,belatedly) so sorry for making you boil your cabbage twice. I wondered if the hash key thing might be somewhere involved, but I think something was being mis-reported in regards to the partitions, so I am re-partitioning and reformatting again. Then, if it still comes up with the error message after the ghost, I will do a re-instal as the article advises.

Thanks also stduc - I think the drive is ok, but I shall have the makers diagnostic disk hovering nearby to give it a check if it gives me any more bother if it wont let me try Bills solution

Best regards,

Pete W.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs - you haven't seen the latest Change Note!

 

[bcastner]

Pete,

Thank you for your kind comments.
Much appreciated.

I comment here only because I have never heard the expression "boil your cabbage twice." And I am dying to use this.

Hmmmm. I will try it on linney.

Best,
Bill Castner

 

[PeteWeedon]

bcastner & stduc:

Hi there, guys,

I feel a little explanation is called for here:

The messages appearing over my signature earlier in this thread were actually posted by Gracie (aka 'Pawz'). She couldn't post in her own name because her own computer is down and because she's forgotten her pass-word.

I hope that, as she and I are a team, the Tek-Tips management will rule this a benign impersonation?

Thank you all who have responded and tried to help her.


Best regards,

Pete W.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs - you haven't seen the latest Change Note!

 

[pawz]

hello Bill and ST - tis me, Gracie, back on my own machine and in my own body, not Pete anymore (sorry 'bout that).
To boil cabbages twice comes from oop north here in UK I think Bill, pleased it caught your attention.

I re-partitioned and reformatted just as before, and everything went as it did before, but this time I got in.

The difference might be that this time I did not label the drives. However I still have a little job to do I think. When I formatted, I suppose it would have been in FAT32 as I was using a windows millennium boot disk ( perhaps that was a mistake?). When I got to do the Ghost, all the partitions that were going to be copied to were copied in NTFS, but that left about 10 Gb not included as the old drive didn't match it, and which I had set as G on the new drive. When I booted up the new drive, Windows XP did a lot of 'corrections' and 'recovery of orphaned files'and this and that before it rebooted and got to the desktop - this happened both times. This time I got no error message and all seems well, but looking at the drive properties I see that the C drive is larger than I partitioned it for, and the other drives are smaller, and G drive is missing. I seem to have about 3 Gb not accounted for. Is this ( do you think) because this area of the drive is still at FAT32 and so Windows just deemed it to be free space and so invisibled it -or incorporated it into the C drive??

 

[DWalrus]

Like Bill I found the term, "Boil your cabbage twice" to be priceless. Good information!

DWalrus

 

[pawz]

pleased to have caused a little ripple of amusement I am DW, perhaps it will 'catch on' as the latest buzz phrase in IT offices all up and down the country!.

Gracie

 

[bcastner]

My sainted 14-year old daughter, (who now gets Road & Track, and Car and Driver Magazines), tried over breakfast to explain to me why I need to purchase an Audi convertible for her.
"Gannon, this is a cabbage boiled twice."
"What does that mean?"
"It means no. We have been there and discussed this and the answer is still no."
"What has cabbage to do with it?"
"It is an idiom I recently read, and thought quite clever."
"Well, I think you are nuts."
"Barmy, I think, is appropriate in this case."

 

[pawz]

tee-hee; I can see this spreading to the White House and Mr B or one of his officers working it into comments to the press.

Fame at last...


Gracie

 

[bcastner]

One odd fact of where I live is that several of President Bush's speechwriters are neighbors of mine. I will suggest we sneak this in for Gracie.

 

[pawz]

whey-hey!!

Gracie

 

[bcastner]

Today, from shouted questions about Kerry's choice of Edwards as running mate: "I have already boiled this cabbage twice."

Your are famous Gracie.

Best,
Bill

 

[pawz]

wow! I shall be charging folks tuppence to talk to me if this goes on

Gracie