After a system crash, I restored my xp operating sys. from the drive D recovery partition and...

[MattMarable]

I had a virus crash of my XP HP dv8225nr laptop about five weeks ago and successfully used my drive D partition to restore my basic xp system to my C drive and brought it fully up-to-date. A week ago, I had another crash, whichI I caused this time, and again, used my drive D recovery partition to restore my XP C drive. This 2nd time everything seems to be O.K. except that neither I nor the system can load ANY Microsoft updates. This was not a problem after the first failure. I now wonder if I this time, I may have incorrectly/incompletely failed to enter all the registration/data/info. correctly and, therefore, perhaps MS doesn't recognize my XP operating system as being a legitimate copy and will not allow any updates to be performedt. This is the only possibility of what could have been different between my two D drive partition re-installations that I can think of. The operating system is the same as what was loaded when I purchased the computer new.


I would appreciate any suggestions. I know that the end-of-support for XP in near but I still have use of this computer.


Thanks to anyone for suggestions.

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