Re: Want To Move My Old Drive To New Computer




<Mathew.McGill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I forgot to mention that some years ago, I transferred a friends drive
to another computer and was able to resolve the driver issues...
Thruthfully, the motherboards were not that different. However, what
we descovered is that if any Office application found itself on
another computer, it will erase itself. In otherwords, it will only
run once and upon closing your document, that application program will
not be found. I don't believe it's a full uninstall because all the
document icons remained the same. The operating system at the time was
98.

Will this happen to me again?

It's hard to say. Whatever scheme MS uses to protect itself against piracy
is linked to the computer ID string, which is generated by the hardware
found on the computer (and hard drive) the software was loaded on. What
happens when it finds itself loading on a "new" computer? Please let us know
if you go that route.


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