Genuine Advantage problem after restore

[Jack T.]

The hard drive on my laptop crashed. I had done an ASR backup just hours
before. However, after the restore, the Genuine Advantage thing no longer
works. I've gone through two other hard drives with the same laptop, and
didn't have this problem when I restored it, but they were before Genuine
Advantage. Failing the ASR, I simply did a mininal install from the CD, and
it took the Genuine Advantage with no problem and downloaded updates. Then
I did a full restore so I could bring the laptop back to normal. After it
rebooted after the restore, it tried to update again, and it said I needed
the Genuine Advantage thing again, but it didn't work again. I repeated
variations of the above two scenarios 5 times, each taking about 10-11 hours
with format and ASR restore off a 4mm tape or manual install plus full
restore. No luck.

The version is XP Professional VLA. Has anyone here had this problem, and
if you found a way out of it? I'd be grateful to know how you got past it.

Thanks,
Jack

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

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| The hard drive on my laptop crashed. I had done an ASR backup just hours
| before. However, after the restore, the Genuine Advantage thing no longer
| works. I've gone through two other hard drives with the same laptop, and
| didn't have this problem when I restored it, but they were before Genuine
| Advantage. Failing the ASR, I simply did a mininal install from the CD, and
| it took the Genuine Advantage with no problem and downloaded updates. Then
| I did a full restore so I could bring the laptop back to normal. After it
| rebooted after the restore, it tried to update again, and it said I needed
| the Genuine Advantage thing again, but it didn't work again. I repeated
| variations of the above two scenarios 5 times, each taking about 10-11 hours
| with format and ASR restore off a 4mm tape or manual install plus full
| restore. No luck.
|
| The version is XP Professional VLA. Has anyone here had this problem, and
| if you found a way out of it? I'd be grateful to know how you got past it.
|
| Thanks,
| Jack

 

[kurttrail]

The hard drive on my laptop crashed. I had done an ASR backup just
hours before. However, after the restore, the Genuine Advantage
thing no longer works. I've gone through two other hard drives with
the same laptop, and didn't have this problem when I restored it, but
they were before Genuine Advantage. Failing the ASR, I simply did a
mininal install from the CD, and it took the Genuine Advantage with
no problem and downloaded updates. Then I did a full restore so I
could bring the laptop back to normal. After it rebooted after the
restore, it tried to update again, and it said I needed the Genuine
Advantage thing again, but it didn't work again. I repeated
variations of the above two scenarios 5 times, each taking about
10-11 hours with format and ASR restore off a 4mm tape or manual
install plus full restore. No luck.
The version is XP Professional VLA. Has anyone here had this
problem, and if you found a way out of it? I'd be grateful to know
how you got past it.
Thanks,
Jack

What do you need WGA for?

If it's for security updates, then just download them directly off of
MS's server.

http://microscum.kurttrail.com/postsp2/

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