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............that I can recover my legit copy of MS office from the hard drive taken from my broken laptop?.
 
Take out the hard drive, put it into another computer. Well it works with me but I have ex business ultra books and custom PC`s. Not a shop purchased PC.
 
GTG said:
Take out the hard drive, put it into another computer. Well it works with me but I have ex business ultra books and custom PC`s. Not a shop purchased PC.
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Done .did not work:(
 
Shouldn't you have the serial number for MS Office in the paperwork for the machine or a sticker on the machine? Did you register it with Microsoft?
 
sphexx said:
Shouldn't you have the serial number for MS Office in the paperwork for the machine or a sticker on the machine? Did you register it with Microsoft?
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When I bought it went into system office was listed as verified and legitimate with the activation code listed. .
 
I'm not very familiar with Microsofts procedure but you should be able to download a copy/trial copy of Office and then put in your serial/activation code. But maybe you haven't a copy of the serial.
If you are stuck with being unable to open/create Office documents then using LibreOffice while you get it sorted out may help.
 
sphexx said:
I'm not very familiar with Microsofts procedure but you should be able to download a copy/trial copy of Office and then put in your serial/activation code. But maybe you haven't a copy of the serial.
If you are stuck with being unable to open/create Office documents then using LibreOffice while you get it sorted out may help.
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Thanks Richard (y)
 
You can not take a hard drive from one computer and put it in another and expect to boot from it, not going to happen.

What version of office do you have?

Do you have the original 25 character product key?

If you do then you can download older versions of office HERE

Unless you have a genuine office key then there is not much hope to be honest
 
Keith W said:
You can not take a hard drive from one computer and put it in another and expect to boot from it, not going to happen.

What version of office do you have?

Do you have the original 25 character product key?

If you do then you can download older versions of office HERE

Unless you have a genuine office key then there is not much hope to be honest
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My hard drives can be taken from one laptop to another and they all boot up no problem at all.

To the OP in the bios have you set it to boot from hard drive?
 
shapeshifter said:
My hard drives can be taken from one laptop to another and they all boot up no problem at all.

To the OP in the bios have you set it to boot from hard drive?
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All the same spec?

Unless they are exact same spec or near as then it isn't going to happen
 
There is a product called Spinrite which is a HDD recovery and maintenance tool:

https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

You burn it to a CD an then follow the instructions - it has loads of good reviews.
 
If you bought it with a used PC, the seller should have given you the licence code for Office as well as the PC with office installed. If they did not, they I'm afraid you did not purchase office 'legitimately', so you can not request / install a replacement copy.

*'legitimately' in the eyes of Microsoft; not saying you did anything wrong just to be clear!

Go back to the seller and ask for the code if you can. If they refuse it's probably because they've installed it again elsewhere or worse.
 
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If your stuck you could sign up to office 365 which gives you the office suite for something like 8quid a month. You get a TB of cloud storage too.

From what I know, if you do get your licence key, you'll need to install the exact same version of office. So if it was office 2013, the key will only work for a fresh install of office 2013.
 
Keith W said:
All the same spec?

Unless they are exact same spec or near as then it isn't going to happen
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I transfere hard drives and ssd between Lenovo x61's and x230 without any problem. All different RAM and processors only the drivers need up dating between models. I cannot see why there should be any problem!

What problem should there be?
 
shapeshifter said:
I transfere hard drives and ssd between Lenovo x61's and x230 without any problem. All different RAM and processors only the drivers need up dating between models. I cannot see why there should be any problem!

What problem should there be?
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Perhaps Lenovo have engineered their laptops to allow interchanging of hard drives between models but certainly this is unusual and wouldn't be the case when exchanging hard drives between manufacturers. At least unless there's been a recent change to the way Windows 10 works, but I doubt it.
 
Seconday hard drives is another matter though.
 
Thanks for all the contributions to this thread. I am not ignoring the replies, with my limited knowledge I am trying to search through and apply your suggestions(y)
 
shapeshifter said:
I transfere hard drives and ssd between Lenovo x61's and x230 without any problem. All different RAM and processors only the drivers need up dating between models. I cannot see why there should be any problem!

What problem should there be?
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Chipset drivers on the motherboard, unless windows can 'see' the correct hardware it ain't going to boot. Unless of course you are referring to secondary drives in which case no problem.
Recent versions of Windows would need re-authenicating too when replacing the motherboard in a consumer environment, not so in corporate.
 
shapeshifter said:
I transfere hard drives and ssd between Lenovo x61's and x230 without any problem. All different RAM and processors only the drivers need up dating between models. I cannot see why there should be any problem!

What problem should there be?
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I've tried transferring an SSD with Win 7 from an i7 PC to an i3 PC and it just gave the BSOD.

I presumed it was because of the different drivers.
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ive even had bother replacing a motherboard with exactly the same model number, turns out it was a slightly different revision.

unless you get incredibly lucky mostly just swapping boot/os drives does not work.

back to topic, if it was a legit version you should have the original retail or OEM paperwork?
 
Thanks to everyone who contributed but I could not retrieve it and have give up trying and have now cleared the hard drive and it is now a rather expensive 500Gb external storage device :crying:
 
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