New Laptop -- moving XP and Office ?

[Gordon]

My 4 year old laptop's hdd dead and instead of replacing it, I have
decided to move to a newer laptop.

The newer laptop I purchased used and came with Windows 2000 pro. I
want to move my XP and Office from my dead laptop to the newer
laptop. Both products are retail versions and there aren't do me bit
of good on the dead laptop.

What is required to get these moved? Where do I go in Microsoft to
get the license assigned to the newer laptop?

Thanks

You don't have to do anything. If the old laptop is still bootable, just
un-install Office from it, and format the HDD.

Then just either do an in-place upgrade with XP on your new laptop (as long
as the version of XP you have is Pro - if you have Home edition then you
will have to do a clean install) and re-install Office.

You will then of course have to re-activate both.

HTH

 

[Gordon]

This is not really a process that someone can just step you through
on a newsgroup.

Why ever not? It's not rocket science......

 

[Gordon]

Sorry for the confusion.

I know how to install the software on the newer laptop and make it
run. That's not the problem.

My question is what happens when I go to activate it? I assume the
license needs to be assigned to my newer laptop, so the products will
pass activation. I would think somewhere in Microsoft (the company),
I need to tell someone I am moving it to a different system.

Nope. Just activate as normal over the internet. If it doesn't, just use the
toll-free activation phone no and tell them what you've done.

 

[Guest]

My 4 year old laptop's hdd dead and instead of replacing it, I have decided
to move to a newer laptop.

The newer laptop I purchased used and came with Windows 2000 pro. I want to
move my XP and Office from my dead laptop to the newer laptop. Both products
are retail versions and there aren't do me bit of good on the dead laptop.

What is required to get these moved? Where do I go in Microsoft to get the
license assigned to the newer laptop?

Thanks

 

[Guest]

This is not really a process that someone can just step you through on a
newsgroup. If you have no idea how to go about this I would recommend you
just take it to someone who does.

 

[Guest]

You are assuming that he knows how to to wipe his hard drive and install
windows from scratch. yeah most of us do but judging by the language in his
first post he doesn't so my recommendation was to take it to someone who does
know to save him a lot of wasted time.

 

[Guest]

Sorry for the confusion.

I know how to install the software on the newer laptop and make it run.
That's not the problem.

My question is what happens when I go to activate it? I assume the license
needs to be assigned to my newer laptop, so the products will pass
activation. I would think somewhere in Microsoft (the company), I need to
tell someone I am moving it to a different system.

Thanks

 

[Tim Slattery]

My 4 year old laptop's hdd dead and instead of replacing it, I have decided
to move to a newer laptop.

The newer laptop I purchased used and came with Windows 2000 pro. I want to
move my XP and Office from my dead laptop to the newer laptop. Both products
are retail versions and there aren't do me bit of good on the dead laptop.

What is required to get these moved? Where do I go in Microsoft to get the
license assigned to the newer laptop?

You won't be able to move the OS. I'm assuming that it's an OEM
version that came with the laptop. In that case the license is good
*only* for the laptop. In any case, it's probably BIOS-locked to the
laptop and won't run anyplace else.

As for Office, just use the install disks to install it on the new
machine. If you have trouble activating, use the phone number and
explain, they should give you the magic number that you need.

 

[HeyBub]

You won't be able to move the OS. I'm assuming that it's an OEM
version that came with the laptop. In that case the license is good
*only* for the laptop. In any case, it's probably BIOS-locked to the
laptop and won't run anyplace else.

As for Office, just use the install disks to install it on the new
machine. If you have trouble activating, use the phone number and
explain, they should give you the magic number that you need.

See the original. Especially the sentence:

" Both products are retail versions ..."

 

[Bruce Chambers]

My 4 year old laptop's hdd dead and instead of replacing it, I have decided
to move to a newer laptop.

The newer laptop I purchased used and came with Windows 2000 pro. I want to
move my XP and Office from my dead laptop to the newer laptop. Both products
are retail versions and there aren't do me bit of good on the dead laptop.

What is required to get these moved?

Simply boot from the WinXP installation CD. You'll be offered the
opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions as part of the
installation process. (You may need to re-arrange the order of boot
devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD.)

HOW TO Install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;316941

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm

After the OS is installed, install Microsoft Office.

Where do I go in Microsoft to get the
license assigned to the newer laptop?

You don't. There is no de-activation process, as such. The Product
Keys will "register" themselves to the new computer when you activate
them. Nothing more need be done.


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[Bruce Chambers]

You are assuming that he knows how to to wipe his hard drive and install
windows from scratch. yeah most of us do but judging by the language in his
first post he doesn't so my recommendation was to take it to someone who does
know to save him a lot of wasted time.

On the contrary; the wording of the original post makes it abundantly
clear that the OP isn't in least bit concerned about the technical
aspects. His question was concerning licensing and activation.


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[Bruce Chambers]

You won't be able to move the OS. I'm assuming that it's an OEM
version that came with the laptop.

Why would you assume that? The OP clearly stated that he had retail
licenses that he'd purchased and installed himself.





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