From: Benjamin Koh (benkoh_at_stanford.edu)
Date: Sat Nov 17 2001 - 05:08:07 EST
I'd like to point out that unless the drive came with a license (and
certificate of authenticity) for MS Office, that installation is not
legal and you are not allowed to use it. Just so you know where you
stand with respect to copyright laws.
As for copying the files, you need to dig out path references and other
settings from the registry. Others will be of more help here, but my
guess is that unless you copy and restore all the registry entries
correctly you will not retain full functionality in the transferred
installations... and different OS versions may need different entries.
Play with the registry (and the copyright laws) at your own risk!
Benjamin
"Dr. Jeffrey Race" wrote:
>
> I purchased a 10gb Travelstar drive as a backup and it somehow
> came loaded with MS Office running on WinME. I intend to use Drivecopy
> and the hard drive carrier and overwrite this partition's contents with
> that of my working drive as a backup. However before then I'd like to
> copy MSOffice to the Win98 drive, since this is a legal copy I now
> own. What files do I need to copy over and how do I install in Win98
> once copied over? What are the gotchas? It's going to disappear
> when I overwrite the spare drive!
>
> Alternatively, is the MSOffice re-install code somewhere on the
> HD containing WinME?
>
> (Sorry, this Windows stuff is all new to me but I am doing some
> comparative testing of various OSs so I have to educate myself about
> it.)
>
> Thanks again for all help.
>
> Jeffrey Race
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