Originally
posted by
Jim Sachs:
I bit the bullet and copied everything over to a different machine, re-installing everything I could find keys for. It's amazing to me how something as ubiquitous as MSWord can be so hard to re-install if you can't find the official CD. All these programs are RIGHT THERE, on my D: drive in the same machine, but can't be run because they weren't "Installed" on the C: drive. How I long for the days when programs could just be dragged anywhere, double-clicked, and they would simply run.
For future reference:
A program like PCmover Image Assistant (or PCmover Upgrade Assistant) might have made that a lot easier.
http://www.laplink.com/
A good backup-and-restore system such as Windows Home Server would have handled that migration, and in addition would have automatically kept older versions of source files available.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...r/default.mspx