Very Odd problem converting from PATA to SATA...

[MIDIman]

I have a WinXP SP1 installation, i875p-based system. I use Acronis True Image - have been for about a year now.

I originally had 2 PATA drives installed and am adding a SATA drive that I would like to now boot from. I enabled sata in bios and booted up to make sure the driver was installed. I then booted from the Acronis bootdisc, used the disk clone option to copy the partitions from the current PATA system drive to the new SATA drive.

For the first boot, I unplugged the old system PATA drive and all worked fine!

For the second boot, I added the PATA drive again, and it booted from IT instead of the SATA drive.

I pulled up PartitionMagic and formatted the old PATA drive. When it was done, it booted, definitely from the SATA drive, but I get something like the following error:

A problem is preventing windows from accurately checking the license for this computer Error code: 0X80090006

I can't get into Safe Mode. What's going on here? I really don't want to start over again!! Looking at the drives from Acronis Boot disk, the old system drive still appears to be an primary/active partition, as well as the new sata drive. How can I remove this from the old drive, and would that even help?

 

[Bozo Galora]

looks like a WPA HD Signature problem

Quote:

Well I've just had the same thing happen to me as Nehmo, exact same
error code, and if you type it into M$ knowledge base you get an
explanation telling you that it is a product activation error caused
because the o/s can no longer determine whether the license is correct
anymore because the new HD serial no. doesn't produce the correct result
for WPA to accept it. I'm paraphrasing a lot there.

It didn't matter to my system that I only plugged in the new HD after I
had cloned the old, it still gave the error. I have been able to do
this before, but that was with FAT32 and not NTFS. Not sure if that
made any difference.
http://www.hardwareforumz.com/ftopic-375-15.html
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Good info here........
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=9660
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ (Bootit NG)

The method I used to clear the disk signatures was to run BootItNG then do
the following:
- Enter the "Work with Partitions" Dialog.
- Choose the correct hard drive.
- Click the "View MBR" button
- Click the "Clear Sig" button
- Click the "Apply" button.

 

[MIDIman]

Is there any way to load BootIt NG from a CD?

 

[MIDIman]

Originally posted by: MIDIman
Is there any way to load BootIt NG from a CD?

nm - found it...working on this now...

 

[MIDIman]

Took a bit of messing around, but got it. Thanks!

Oddly, Motherboard Monitor is the only thing freaking out now.

 

[FlyingPenguin]

You need to re-install Motherboard Monitor. MBM detects the chipset on install and I know of know way to manually reset it.