Re: Why didn't this work?

David wrote:
> I was recently on a trip tp Asia lasting several weeks. I bought
> bought a new 80Gig hard drive, and re-installed XP Home and SP2. I
> had been advised to make an image, both after installing XP/SP2 and
> after all the various programs that i'd be using.
>
> All seemed to be well, but I'd left I discovered that my external DVD
> burner was now seen as a CD-ROM, not even a CD burner. Of coursse I
> had my images to fall back on; no use, the problem came with SP2 and
> it was in the image too. Since I had brought the original 30 Gig h/d
> with me in an external case I decided on emergency field surgery.
> Using only a Swiss Army knife I removed the new drive and replaced it
> with the old one which still had XP on it, a copy of XP that had
> worked with the burner and hadn't been used since I'd removed it. I
> booted up and was well pleased to see the Welcome screen, at least
> that meant I'd got the connections right, and it IS possible in a Sony
> to hook it up wrong, how's that for design engineering? However, my
> relief was short lived. The next thing was a warning, something like:
> "Windows is unable to authenticate this installation of XP."
> follwed by a shut down.
>
> Now why didn't that work? No software had been added or deleted, the
> drive was unscrewed, set aside, then replaced. I know about
> activation, this copy had been activated, it had been in use until I
> put the new drive in before setting off. How did XP "know" that the
> drive had been removed and rinstalled?
>

It didn't. That shouldn't have happened, but PA doesn't always work the
way it is to supposed to.

Try booting into Safe Mode, and deleting the wpa.dbl and wpa.bak files.
Then reboot. See if that works.

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