From: Ray Bayles (canyonlands_at_theriver.com)
Date: Sat Nov 17 2001 - 08:48:40 EST
Using something like Drive Copy or Ghost will move it over to the
other drive along with everything else, but there is no way to move
just that MS Office without the install disk and key code. You could
alternately copy all of the registry entries, but your chances of a
cleanly working copy are minimal. Those boys and girls at Microsoft
managed to sprinkle stuff throughout all the registry entries so that
you need them all and they must be exactly correct. You can copy the
files easily enough, but MS Office 2000 professional is controlled by
entries in the registry... and ME is a real pain in the butt.
From what I have seen of your schedule, you don't have the time it
takes to do this without just doing a clean install... and if it is
Office 2000 you still will need to call Microsoft for the final code.
Office 97 is a lot easier. Contact me if you can use Office 97
professional
"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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