MS Office question (program transfer question) - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

Emmerich · #1 10-17-2010, 12:54 PM

I bought a PC that has Office 2007 on it, the computer was used when I got it and now the hard disk is acting flaky, so I want to replace it. I have no discs for the OS or Office, how could I transfer Office to the new disk? I know there are programs that can do this, but i don't know what they are. The new disk will be the boot disk, and I will probably upgrade the OS to Win 7, so I don't have to transfer the OS to the new disk. I don't want to have to buy another copy of Office if possible.

thanks

Matt L · #2 10-17-2010, 12:59 PM

I assume that the software was pre-installed. If the computer didn't come with CDROMs for the OS and Office (etc.), you might be able to get them from the manufacturer. Probably free.

Or get OpenOffice.

Emmerich · #3 10-17-2010, 01:05 PM

I have OpenOffice, but that I use for home stuff, I need Excel and Access to do work for my company at home. In particular, I do a lot with VBA, which doesn't translate into OpenOffice.

I never heard of MS coughing up replacement disks, their whole existence is built around making the customer pay over and over and over....

Matt L · #4 10-17-2010, 01:20 PM

Not Microsoft. I mean the manufacturer of your computer.

Emmerich · #5 10-17-2010, 01:24 PM

Gotcha. It is an IBM and a guy who works at IBM sold it to me. He disappeared after he got the money....

kknudson · #6 10-17-2010, 01:31 PM

Find locate one of several key finder programs, and get the keys for the OS and Office now.
You may be able to DL a trial version and activate it with those keys.

NEXT and do this NOW, get an Image backup program, an external HD and clone the HD NOW.

There are several free/shareware, Acronis (my fav) offers a 15 or 30 day full feature free trial.

Matt L · #7 10-17-2010, 01:31 PM

I would try their website. I got disks for an old Dell from Dell, without doing anything but providing an address. But who knows, since they're now branded Lenovo.

Stoney · #8 10-18-2010, 06:09 PM

http://katz.cd/search?q=ms+office+2007

MS Office 2007 Enterprise or Blue will work fine and the download file includes the software key. I have used this to make jobsite laptops that sometimes get trashed/stolen so I don;t want to waste $$ on real MS Office purchase. It works and does not report to momma MS that its a hacked version.

DL and burn it to a CD and then back up all your MS Word/Excel, etc files to CD and then install on the new drive..

Of course the other way would be to buy another HDD and install it and use Drive Pro or the like to mirror the old drive to the new. It may not transfer every program so DL as above and prep for the worst.

pawoSD · #9 10-18-2010, 06:53 PM

With office 2007 you are out of luck. Not going to work (legally).

#10 10-18-2010, 06:59 PM

The bottom line is, if you don't legally own a copy on MS Office and you need it for work either you or your employer should buy a copy. If someone sold you a computer with it loaded but kept the discs to load it on his new computer, you don't own a legal copy.

powerpig · #11 10-18-2010, 07:14 PM

There are plenty of cloning/backup programs out there. Just buy the new HD and an external adaptor and clove the old HD to the new one. The license will transfer fine.

#12 10-18-2010, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by powerpig

There are plenty of cloning/backup programs out there. Just buy the new HD and an external adaptor and clove the old HD to the new one. The license will transfer fine.

Aside from the legality of this software, you should probably be doing that anyway. I maintain two up-to-date clones of my notebook's hard drive, one at home and one that travels with me. I have my software scheduled to update the backups every night. This is especially important if your hard drive is acting up.

pawoSD · #13 10-18-2010, 11:10 PM

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Originally Posted by powerpig

There are plenty of cloning/backup programs out there. Just buy the new HD and an external adaptor and clove the old HD to the new one. The license will transfer fine.

Not if the old drive was IDE and the new one is SATA. Or if the sizes are different. There's a multitude of things that could go wrong cloning the drive. Or if the new PC has all new needed drivers, and one of them causes a blue screen on boot, then it is out of the average user's means to fix.

Ara T. · #14 10-18-2010, 11:15 PM

bittorrent

torrentz.com

problem solved.

alabbasi · #15 10-19-2010, 02:56 AM

Fred

If you think that the IBM PC is less then 3 years old and it's a corporate standard machine. Then It may have been pre-loaded at the factory with Office 2007. In that case, you can order a new recovery CD from IBM (Lenovo) at low cost or you may also be able to make a recovery CD from the backup partition using the blue access IBM button.

Good luck!.