Hi Terry. A couple of things to check. Did you boot your machine with both drives as bootable? If so, Win2k and WinXp have problems with that. As a mater of fact, if Partition Magic detects two bootable drives, it will warn you against having two bootable drives in a Win2k/Xp machine. I did this last week and couldn't logon to Win2k if I removed the second drive. Windows also saw my original C: drive as I:. I tried changing the drive letter back to C: in Computer Management. Bad Idea. Almost lost everything. Windows appears to try to figure out who has access to the machine and makes a "choice" of which security setup to use. I ended up reloading my C: drive.

Another thing to watch out for. I've had some problems loading an image to a drive if I don't match up the New Size with the Old Size in the Data Size field. I have only had this problem on WinXp machines.

I know that this is not you specific problem, but it may help in some way.

>Hello,
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>I am running Windows XP Professional. I have a 20GB C drive. I would like to install a new 80GB C drive. I tried to use Symantec Ghost 2003 to clone the drive; unfortunately, I received an error about Windows Product Activation when I tried to boot from the new drive.
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>The cloning process appeared to go without a problem. The computer booted OK from the new drive and went to the password signon screen. When I entered my password and hit enter, I received the following error:
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>"A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking the license for this computer. Error Code: 0x80090006."
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>I called Microsoft and they basically said that Ghosting was not a good idea - that it caused more problems that it was worth - etc., etc. They recommended a complete re-install of software to the new drive.
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>I would prefer not to have to re-install everything. Does anyone have any "positive" experience Ghosting a C drive? If so, I would appreciate a small step-by-step tutorial. If not, please let me know and I will set aside some time for the software re-install.
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>Thanks,
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>TFISHER