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Trish

I'm not even sure if this is where I should send this,
but I recently installed a new hard drive. I keep trying
to access Microsoft Word from my old one, but it gives me
the error message "Microsoft Word has not been installed
for the current user. Please run setup to install the
operation." The problem is that I don't have the CD I
used to install it, my parents very stupidly threw it out
with the stuff for our old printer.

Is there any way I could get this to work? I really
don't want to buy another copy of this, it's a very
expensive program >.<

Trish
 
Did you add the new hard drive to hold the operating system as C drive or
add it as a supplementary drive?

If the former, you will not be able to run Word without reinstalling unless
you use the old operating system installation and drive letter assignments
as none of the registry entries will be available and for correcting that
you need the Word disc.

If you can prove you legitimately purchased the original disc, then you
should be able to obtain a replacement from Microsoft. Otherwise the only
alternative to reinstallation would be to use a program such as Ghost to
clone the old drive and its operating system to the new drive, then install
that as the boot drive. Use the old drive as a data drive, but don't
reformat it until you are sure everything works.

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Would the CD key be the best way to prove I purchased
it? If so, I'll look around and see if I can find any
copies of it anywhere else. I know I wrote it down in at
least another place, but I don't know where it wandered
off to or if I even still have it.

Thanks for taking the time to answer my question Graham.
 
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