New hard drive and no office CD

[Michaelaug]

I installed a new hard drive and intalled my opperating system on it. I left
the original drive intact. When trying to open Office from the old drive I
get an error message saying that needed files are missing and telling me to
re-install the prduct. Problem is, I don't have the disk. Office was on the
comuter when I bought it. Both drives have XP pro. Is there a way to move the
right files to the new drive to allow office to open?

 

[Gordon]

Office was on the comuter when I bought it.

Then whoever you bought it from should have given you a CD.
You need to go back to them and ask where it is.

 

[Earle Horton]

You could make an image copy of the old hard disk to the new one. I am
assuming that the old hard drive is still in good condition, but probably
too small. I use Symantec Ghost 2003 for this purpose. Since operating
system files are involved, it is more complicated than dragging one disk
icon over the other one.

Gordon's post is apropos too. You should have gotten install media with the
computer when you bought it.

Another, easy solution is to leave the old hard disk in place as your
boot/system disk, moving all user documents and Documents folder to the new,
big disk. That takes care of the space problem, but does not address the
issue of eventual failure of the old hard disk. "All" computer components
fail with time, and you will eventually want to move to new hardware.

Earle

 

[Peter Foldes]

If it was on your computer when you purchased it then it was most probably a Trial
version of Office