Product Key for Office 2003 Mark A 3/24/2007 4:45:00 AM I have two laptops that came with Office 2003 preloaded. The laptops are now dead, but I thought it would be nice if I could at least reuse the Office licenses. Of course, I can't find any doc that came with them originally. The hard drives are still good, though. I can access the hard drives via a USB hard drive adapter, but none of the typical (Belarc, MagicJellyBean) utilities for retrieving a key will work, because the USB drive isn't the boot drive. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Re: Product Key for Office 2003 "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" <MillyS[ at ]donteventhinkaboutmailingmeatmvps.org> 3/24/2007 6:25:59 AM You would need to install Office to your native boot drive to use. If Office came preloaded by the OEM, it cannot be transferred to the new machine. Perhaps amazon.com is a good place to start looking. -- Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without reading. After furious head scratching, Mark A asked: | I have two laptops that came with Office 2003 preloaded. The laptops | are now dead, but I thought it would be nice if I could at least | reuse the Office licenses. Of course, I can't find any doc that came | with them originally. The hard drives are still good, though. I can | access the hard drives via a USB hard drive adapter, but none of the | typical (Belarc, MagicJellyBean) utilities for retrieving a key will | work, because the USB drive isn't the boot drive. | | Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Re: Product Key for Office 2003 "Rebus" <mail-noreply[ at ]googlemail.com> 3/25/2007 2:04:12 PM As Milly stated - OEM copies are 'tied' to a particular machine, It's all in the license agreement, along with almost zero support from MS - this is why they are cheaper to buy. I'm afraid you'll have to spend some money... "Mark A" <MarkA[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:26D801AD-66C2-4948-8F63-C20D0D26FE9F[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I have two laptops that came with Office 2003 preloaded. The laptops are >now > dead, but I thought it would be nice if I could at least reuse the Office > licenses. Of course, I can't find any doc that came with them originally. > The hard drives are still good, though. I can access the hard drives via > a > USB hard drive adapter, but none of the typical (Belarc, MagicJellyBean) > utilities for retrieving a key will work, because the USB drive isn't the > boot drive. > > Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.