Running off slave drive

[steelth]

I put together a comp. with parts of my brothers old comp. For my brother to have a new 1 ,but he wanted programs like office "which is on his old Hard drive" and my widows vista business that I have doesn't have office . So I thought maybe I could put his old hard drive as a slave drive and he would have all his old programs ,but it say's they won't run on that OS. Is there any way around this or am I better off getting office somewhere and fresh installing it ?His old Comp. was a Dell.

 

[SNGX1275]

What you want to do can't be done. Has to be installed on that Windows install.

Does he really need "Microsoft Office"? because there are a few pretty solid free office suites out there, just for some of the more complex formatting causes problems sharing with people that use Microsoft Office.

 

[steelth]

I'll see ,I use Open office so I'm going to try to talk him into that . thank you for the quick reply.

 

[DelJo63]

Just for clarity, you can access any files on the slave drive, but programs will not run due to the need to have 100's of registry entries on the running C:\ drive. That's what and install.msi does