How do I get MS Office off my old hard drive?

[creedon16]

I got a new computer and installed my old hard drive onto my new computer as
a secondary drive. The old drive had a valid MS Office, how do I run it on
my new computer? I see the files but the msword.exe say it isn't installed.
Any help?

 

[Another Brian]

If you copy of Office is OEM instead of retail, you cannot install it
on the new computer. If it is a retail copy, to get it to work you'll
need to install it on the new computer. The install will just
overwrite the Office program files and will add the necessary entries
to the Windows registry. It is these missing registry entries that are
preventing you from using Office. You will need to do a custom
installation and tell the installer when you are prompted to put the
Office files on the secondary drive instead of the default C: drive.

Alternately you can delete all the Office program files off the
secondary drive and then install Office to the primary drive. To
remove Office you can search the Microsoft site for instructions for
your version of Office. For Office 2007
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/05/1213_diebolt/index.html
or for non-MS instructions, see
http://www.officearticles.com/misc/remove_microsoft_office_from_your_pc.htm

Good luck
Brian

 

[DL]

Short answer: you cannot run any programs that were installed on your old
drive when attached as slave.
You would need to reinstall all programs