Run Word/Excel/Etc from old hard drive?

Hi everyone,

I helped a friend of mine do a clean install of Windows 98 onto his
machine, as his existing copy had pretty much been overrun by spyware
and was plagued by error messages for missing dll’s, etc.

When we did this, we also added a new hard drive to the system, with
the intent of running the old hard drive as a slave. The old hard
drive still contains the messed-up copy of Win98, along with all his
other programs and files which he still wants access to.

The problem is, we can’t run Word or Excel off the old hard drive,
it just gives an error message prompts us to run setup. We don’t
have a setup disk for Word and Excel because they were OEM programs
that came with the computer. The computer system is still the same,
we just added a hard drive and made the old one a slave.

Is there a way to run these programs now that they’re on the slave
hard drive, maybe using regedit or something? OR, is there a way to
transfer them to the new hard drive to get them running? We don’t
really care which drive they’re on, as long as they’re working.

If we disconnect the new HD and reconnect the old HD as a master, Word
and Excel still run fine, it’s just cumbersome because Win98 is so
corrupt on that drive, and unfortunately the restore disk is long
gone.

Joe G

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You are between a rock and a hard place.
When Office is installed, it sets up many thousand of entries in the
Registry. I doubt that you could successfully change the lot as they
are not all plain text entries.
I kept a log file when I installed Office2000 and that file is 125,999
lines long (and it didn't finish correctly)


There are programs about that will move applications from one drive to
another but in my experience, they don't handle a massive Office move.


....Alan
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On 28 Oct 2005 13:36:00 -0400, MtnDewJoe
wrote:

Hi everyone,

I helped a friend of mine do a clean install of Windows 98 onto his
machine, as his existing copy had pretty much been overrun by spyware
and was plagued by error messages for missing dll’s, etc.

When we did this, we also added a new hard drive to the system, with
the intent of running the old hard drive as a slave. The old hard
drive still contains the messed-up copy of Win98, along with all his
other programs and files which he still wants access to.

The problem is, we can’t run Word or Excel off the old hard drive,
it just gives an error message prompts us to run setup. We don’t
have a setup disk for Word and Excel because they were OEM programs
that came with the computer. The computer system is still the same,
we just added a hard drive and made the old one a slave.

Is there a way to run these programs now that they’re on the slave
hard drive, maybe using regedit or something? OR, is there a way to
transfer them to the new hard drive to get them running? We don’t
really care which drive they’re on, as long as they’re working.

If we disconnect the new HD and reconnect the old HD as a master, Word
and Excel still run fine, it’s just cumbersome because Win98 is so
corrupt on that drive, and unfortunately the restore disk is long
gone.

Joe G

You will have to install the programs to the system on new drive in order to
run them from the new drive. There should have been software furnished for
Office so I suggest that you look through your friend's CDs. If there are
none, you can probably pick up a copy of Office 97 fairly reasonably on
EBay.

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Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo



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Hi everyone,

I helped a friend of mine do a clean install of Windows 98 onto his
machine, as his existing copy had pretty much been overrun by spyware
and was plagued by error messages for missing dllâ?Ts, etc.

When we did this, we also added a new hard drive to the system, with
the intent of running the old hard drive as a slave. The old hard
drive still contains the messed-up copy of Win98, along with all his
other programs and files which he still wants access to.

The problem is, we canâ?Tt run Word or Excel off the old hard drive,
it just gives an error message prompts us to run setup. We donâ?Tt
have a setup disk for Word and Excel because they were OEM programs
that came with the computer. The computer system is still the same,
we just added a hard drive and made the old one a slave.

Is there a way to run these programs now that theyâ?Tre on the slave
hard drive, maybe using regedit or something? OR, is there a way to
transfer them to the new hard drive to get them running? We donâ?Tt
really care which drive theyâ?Tre on, as long as theyâ?Tre working.

If we disconnect the new HD and reconnect the old HD as a master, Word
and Excel still run fine, itâ?Ts just cumbersome because Win98 is so
corrupt on that drive, and unfortunately the restore disk is long
gone.

Joe G

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If you can't find Office, download Open Office 2.0.


On 28 Oct 2005 13:36:00 -0400, MtnDewJoe
wrote:

Hi everyone,

I helped a friend of mine do a clean install of Windows 98 onto his
machine, as his existing copy had pretty much been overrun by spyware
and was plagued by error messages for missing dll’s, etc.

When we did this, we also added a new hard drive to the system, with
the intent of running the old hard drive as a slave. The old hard
drive still contains the messed-up copy of Win98, along with all his
other programs and files which he still wants access to.

The problem is, we can’t run Word or Excel off the old hard drive,
it just gives an error message prompts us to run setup. We don’t
have a setup disk for Word and Excel because they were OEM programs
that came with the computer. The computer system is still the same,
we just added a hard drive and made the old one a slave.

Is there a way to run these programs now that they’re on the slave
hard drive, maybe using regedit or something? OR, is there a way to
transfer them to the new hard drive to get them running? We don’t
really care which drive they’re on, as long as they’re working.

If we disconnect the new HD and reconnect the old HD as a master, Word
and Excel still run fine, it’s just cumbersome because Win98 is so
corrupt on that drive, and unfortunately the restore disk is long
gone.

Joe G