Reinstall office on new disk

[fishie]

A friend of mine got a new hard disk and the old one was configured at drive
D: with its contents still intact, including Office 97, which came bundled
with the computer when she bought it. She wants to get Office running again,
but doesn't have the CD - either it's lost or the place that sold her the
machine originally never gave her the disk.
Is there any way to reactivate the installation without the CD?

 

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

A friend of mine got a new hard disk and the old one was configured
at drive D: with its contents still intact, including Office 97,
which came bundled with the computer when she bought it. She wants to
get Office running again, but doesn't have the CD - either it's lost
or the place that sold her the machine originally never gave her the
disk.
Is there any way to reactivate the installation without the CD?

Two choices: -

1) Visit the new drive manufacturer's website and download their cloning
tool

or

2) Buy Office again.

You cannot just copy files across - Office scatters itself across the disk
and creates many thousands of registry entries.

 

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

A friend of mine got a new hard disk and the old one was configured
at drive D: with its contents still intact, including Office 97,
which came bundled with the computer when she bought it. She wants to
get Office running again, but doesn't have the CD - either it's lost
or the place that sold her the machine originally never gave her the
disk.
Is there any way to reactivate the installation without the CD?

Two choices: -

1) Visit the new drive manufacturer's website and download their cloning
tool

or

2) Buy Office again.

You cannot just copy files across - Office scatters itself across the disk
and creates many thousands of registry entries.

 

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

A friend of mine got a new hard disk and the old one was configured
at drive D: with its contents still intact, including Office 97,
which came bundled with the computer when she bought it. She wants to
get Office running again, but doesn't have the CD - either it's lost
or the place that sold her the machine originally never gave her the
disk.
Is there any way to reactivate the installation without the CD?

Two choices: -

1) Visit the new drive manufacturer's website and download their cloning
tool

or

2) Buy Office again.

You cannot just copy files across - Office scatters itself across the disk
and creates many thousands of registry entries.

 

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

A friend of mine got a new hard disk and the old one was configured
at drive D: with its contents still intact, including Office 97,
which came bundled with the computer when she bought it. She wants to
get Office running again, but doesn't have the CD - either it's lost
or the place that sold her the machine originally never gave her the
disk.
Is there any way to reactivate the installation without the CD?

Two choices: -

1) Visit the new drive manufacturer's website and download their cloning
tool

or

2) Buy Office again.

You cannot just copy files across - Office scatters itself across the disk
and creates many thousands of registry entries.

 

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

A friend of mine got a new hard disk and the old one was configured
at drive D: with its contents still intact, including Office 97,
which came bundled with the computer when she bought it. She wants to
get Office running again, but doesn't have the CD - either it's lost
or the place that sold her the machine originally never gave her the
disk.
Is there any way to reactivate the installation without the CD?

Two choices: -

1) Visit the new drive manufacturer's website and download their cloning
tool

or

2) Buy Office again.

You cannot just copy files across - Office scatters itself across the disk
and creates many thousands of registry entries.

 

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

A friend of mine got a new hard disk and the old one was configured
at drive D: with its contents still intact, including Office 97,
which came bundled with the computer when she bought it. She wants to
get Office running again, but doesn't have the CD - either it's lost
or the place that sold her the machine originally never gave her the
disk.
Is there any way to reactivate the installation without the CD?

Two choices: -

1) Visit the new drive manufacturer's website and download their cloning
tool

or

2) Buy Office again.

You cannot just copy files across - Office scatters itself across the disk
and creates many thousands of registry entries.

 

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

A friend of mine got a new hard disk and the old one was configured
at drive D: with its contents still intact, including Office 97,
which came bundled with the computer when she bought it. She wants to
get Office running again, but doesn't have the CD - either it's lost
or the place that sold her the machine originally never gave her the
disk.
Is there any way to reactivate the installation without the CD?

Two choices: -

1) Visit the new drive manufacturer's website and download their cloning
tool

or

2) Buy Office again.

You cannot just copy files across - Office scatters itself across the disk
and creates many thousands of registry entries.

 

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

A friend of mine got a new hard disk and the old one was configured
at drive D: with its contents still intact, including Office 97,
which came bundled with the computer when she bought it. She wants to
get Office running again, but doesn't have the CD - either it's lost
or the place that sold her the machine originally never gave her the
disk.
Is there any way to reactivate the installation without the CD?

Two choices: -

1) Visit the new drive manufacturer's website and download their cloning
tool

or

2) Buy Office again.

You cannot just copy files across - Office scatters itself across the disk
and creates many thousands of registry entries.

 

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

A friend of mine got a new hard disk and the old one was configured
at drive D: with its contents still intact, including Office 97,
which came bundled with the computer when she bought it. She wants to
get Office running again, but doesn't have the CD - either it's lost
or the place that sold her the machine originally never gave her the
disk.
Is there any way to reactivate the installation without the CD?

Two choices: -

1) Visit the new drive manufacturer's website and download their cloning
tool

or

2) Buy Office again.

You cannot just copy files across - Office scatters itself across the disk
and creates many thousands of registry entries.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Two choices: -

1) Visit the new drive manufacturer's website and download their
cloning tool

(Acronis TrueImage is swell stuff, btw)

or

2) Buy Office again.

.....and in addition, Office 97 is to Office 2003 as an Edsel is to a Ford
Explorer. Office 97 is ancient and is no longer supported. Your friend
should shell out the cash for Office 2003....if she had the CD, or could
image/clone, she could buy the upgrade version - however, it would be
impossible to use that if she then got a new computer & had no 'qualifying
media' to point the upgrade setup to. Of course, she can't run Office 2003
if she's not running Windows 2000 SP3 or WinXP as her desktop OS. Which I'd
recommend anyway.

You cannot just copy files across - Office scatters itself across the
disk and creates many thousands of registry entries.

Ayuh. One of the things I like about most Mac software is that you can just
copy the folder to the location of your choice upon whim. The Windows
registry sounded like a swell thing when I first started using it, but over
the years I have come to miss .ini files.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Two choices: -

1) Visit the new drive manufacturer's website and download their
cloning tool

(Acronis TrueImage is swell stuff, btw)

or

2) Buy Office again.

.....and in addition, Office 97 is to Office 2003 as an Edsel is to a Ford
Explorer. Office 97 is ancient and is no longer supported. Your friend
should shell out the cash for Office 2003....if she had the CD, or could
image/clone, she could buy the upgrade version - however, it would be
impossible to use that if she then got a new computer & had no 'qualifying
media' to point the upgrade setup to. Of course, she can't run Office 2003
if she's not running Windows 2000 SP3 or WinXP as her desktop OS. Which I'd
recommend anyway.

You cannot just copy files across - Office scatters itself across the
disk and creates many thousands of registry entries.

Ayuh. One of the things I like about most Mac software is that you can just
copy the folder to the location of your choice upon whim. The Windows
registry sounded like a swell thing when I first started using it, but over
the years I have come to miss .ini files.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Two choices: -

1) Visit the new drive manufacturer's website and download their
cloning tool

(Acronis TrueImage is swell stuff, btw)

or

2) Buy Office again.

.....and in addition, Office 97 is to Office 2003 as an Edsel is to a Ford
Explorer. Office 97 is ancient and is no longer supported. Your friend
should shell out the cash for Office 2003....if she had the CD, or could
image/clone, she could buy the upgrade version - however, it would be
impossible to use that if she then got a new computer & had no 'qualifying
media' to point the upgrade setup to. Of course, she can't run Office 2003
if she's not running Windows 2000 SP3 or WinXP as her desktop OS. Which I'd
recommend anyway.

You cannot just copy files across - Office scatters itself across the
disk and creates many thousands of registry entries.

Ayuh. One of the things I like about most Mac software is that you can just
copy the folder to the location of your choice upon whim. The Windows
registry sounded like a swell thing when I first started using it, but over
the years I have come to miss .ini files.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Two choices: -

1) Visit the new drive manufacturer's website and download their
cloning tool

(Acronis TrueImage is swell stuff, btw)

or

2) Buy Office again.

.....and in addition, Office 97 is to Office 2003 as an Edsel is to a Ford
Explorer. Office 97 is ancient and is no longer supported. Your friend
should shell out the cash for Office 2003....if she had the CD, or could
image/clone, she could buy the upgrade version - however, it would be
impossible to use that if she then got a new computer & had no 'qualifying
media' to point the upgrade setup to. Of course, she can't run Office 2003
if she's not running Windows 2000 SP3 or WinXP as her desktop OS. Which I'd
recommend anyway.

You cannot just copy files across - Office scatters itself across the
disk and creates many thousands of registry entries.

Ayuh. One of the things I like about most Mac software is that you can just
copy the folder to the location of your choice upon whim. The Windows
registry sounded like a swell thing when I first started using it, but over
the years I have come to miss .ini files.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Two choices: -

1) Visit the new drive manufacturer's website and download their
cloning tool

(Acronis TrueImage is swell stuff, btw)

or

2) Buy Office again.

.....and in addition, Office 97 is to Office 2003 as an Edsel is to a Ford
Explorer. Office 97 is ancient and is no longer supported. Your friend
should shell out the cash for Office 2003....if she had the CD, or could
image/clone, she could buy the upgrade version - however, it would be
impossible to use that if she then got a new computer & had no 'qualifying
media' to point the upgrade setup to. Of course, she can't run Office 2003
if she's not running Windows 2000 SP3 or WinXP as her desktop OS. Which I'd
recommend anyway.

You cannot just copy files across - Office scatters itself across the
disk and creates many thousands of registry entries.

Ayuh. One of the things I like about most Mac software is that you can just
copy the folder to the location of your choice upon whim. The Windows
registry sounded like a swell thing when I first started using it, but over
the years I have come to miss .ini files.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Two choices: -

1) Visit the new drive manufacturer's website and download their
cloning tool

(Acronis TrueImage is swell stuff, btw)

or

2) Buy Office again.

.....and in addition, Office 97 is to Office 2003 as an Edsel is to a Ford
Explorer. Office 97 is ancient and is no longer supported. Your friend
should shell out the cash for Office 2003....if she had the CD, or could
image/clone, she could buy the upgrade version - however, it would be
impossible to use that if she then got a new computer & had no 'qualifying
media' to point the upgrade setup to. Of course, she can't run Office 2003
if she's not running Windows 2000 SP3 or WinXP as her desktop OS. Which I'd
recommend anyway.

You cannot just copy files across - Office scatters itself across the
disk and creates many thousands of registry entries.

Ayuh. One of the things I like about most Mac software is that you can just
copy the folder to the location of your choice upon whim. The Windows
registry sounded like a swell thing when I first started using it, but over
the years I have come to miss .ini files.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Two choices: -

1) Visit the new drive manufacturer's website and download their
cloning tool

(Acronis TrueImage is swell stuff, btw)

or

2) Buy Office again.

.....and in addition, Office 97 is to Office 2003 as an Edsel is to a Ford
Explorer. Office 97 is ancient and is no longer supported. Your friend
should shell out the cash for Office 2003....if she had the CD, or could
image/clone, she could buy the upgrade version - however, it would be
impossible to use that if she then got a new computer & had no 'qualifying
media' to point the upgrade setup to. Of course, she can't run Office 2003
if she's not running Windows 2000 SP3 or WinXP as her desktop OS. Which I'd
recommend anyway.

You cannot just copy files across - Office scatters itself across the
disk and creates many thousands of registry entries.

Ayuh. One of the things I like about most Mac software is that you can just
copy the folder to the location of your choice upon whim. The Windows
registry sounded like a swell thing when I first started using it, but over
the years I have come to miss .ini files.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Two choices: -

1) Visit the new drive manufacturer's website and download their
cloning tool

(Acronis TrueImage is swell stuff, btw)

or

2) Buy Office again.

.....and in addition, Office 97 is to Office 2003 as an Edsel is to a Ford
Explorer. Office 97 is ancient and is no longer supported. Your friend
should shell out the cash for Office 2003....if she had the CD, or could
image/clone, she could buy the upgrade version - however, it would be
impossible to use that if she then got a new computer & had no 'qualifying
media' to point the upgrade setup to. Of course, she can't run Office 2003
if she's not running Windows 2000 SP3 or WinXP as her desktop OS. Which I'd
recommend anyway.

You cannot just copy files across - Office scatters itself across the
disk and creates many thousands of registry entries.

Ayuh. One of the things I like about most Mac software is that you can just
copy the folder to the location of your choice upon whim. The Windows
registry sounded like a swell thing when I first started using it, but over
the years I have come to miss .ini files.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Two choices: -

1) Visit the new drive manufacturer's website and download their
cloning tool

(Acronis TrueImage is swell stuff, btw)

or

2) Buy Office again.

.....and in addition, Office 97 is to Office 2003 as an Edsel is to a Ford
Explorer. Office 97 is ancient and is no longer supported. Your friend
should shell out the cash for Office 2003....if she had the CD, or could
image/clone, she could buy the upgrade version - however, it would be
impossible to use that if she then got a new computer & had no 'qualifying
media' to point the upgrade setup to. Of course, she can't run Office 2003
if she's not running Windows 2000 SP3 or WinXP as her desktop OS. Which I'd
recommend anyway.

You cannot just copy files across - Office scatters itself across the
disk and creates many thousands of registry entries.

Ayuh. One of the things I like about most Mac software is that you can just
copy the folder to the location of your choice upon whim. The Windows
registry sounded like a swell thing when I first started using it, but over
the years I have come to miss .ini files.

 

[fishie]

Thanks Miss Tick and Ms Lan, I was afraid there wouldn't be any better
answers but I promised to ask. Cloning the drive is not an option; the
previous installation of Windows had rotted away and needed reinstalling
anyway.

....and in addition, Office 97 is to Office 2003 as an Edsel is to a Ford

Explorer.

You mean, it's a famous classic that some people even consider beautiful,
and it won't fall over in the slightest breeze or kill everyone in its path?

Office 97 is ancient and is no longer supported.

But still does a fine job...

Your friend
should shell out the cash for Office 2003....if she had the CD, or could
image/clone, she could buy the upgrade version - however, it would be
impossible to use that if she then got a new computer & had no 'qualifying
media' to point the upgrade setup to. Of course, she can't run Office 2003
if she's not running Windows 2000 SP3 or WinXP as her desktop OS. Which I'd
recommend anyway.

Nope, it's Win ME... and she's quite naturally spitting tacks at the idea of
paying again for something she's already paid for as part of the original
purchase of the computer. I'll tell her to download Open Office, I think.