Transferring OEM Office 2010 Professional To New SSD

I've installed a new SSD drive (msata) on my computer. The HDD came with an OEM copy of office pro 2010.

I've copied the product key from the working copy of office however when I try to download it from Netbook - Office.com I got told that my product is not valid. As such I cannot download it.

it is a legitimate copy though for some reason I can't download it again. Is there any other way of copying it from one installation to another (I am reluctant to delete the HDD OS until I've copied this over successfully).

Thanks,
Kevin

 

Sounds like might be easier to image the entire drive or use recovery discs if it was preinstalled.

 

if it is a win7 OS you can shrink the HDD primary partition to slightly smaller than the SSD. Make a system image then setup the SSD as the primary boot and restore the image to SSD. Once done expand the partition for the entire SSD and you are set. I have migrated my Win7 install through a few HDD's and SSD'd with this method.

 

In hindsight, imaging my original drive would have been the best solution. However, I had read that it was best to install a fresh version of windows on SSD drives so I did that. I've since setup all drivers and applications on my SSD and don't really want to go through the hassle of reinstalling everything as it will take the best part of a day.

Not sure if there is any way to add office back now.

 

if you do the image from the HDD you will not have to install anything. It will work just as it did before. The system will have everything there from the C:\ drive, all the drivers and everything.

Otherwise the OEM EULA is tied to the PC that it was originally installed to. You must then contact the installer of the software, beit vendor or OEM, to obtain a copy. Other methods could be used by others to circumvent safeguards for the OEM EULA and can't be discussed here. If the installer though is unavailable you could contact M$ and maybe they can help out.................

 

Again, in hindsight, restoring an image to the SSD would have been the best idea. I read many articles before hand that stated that it's best to install windows fresh to avoid any problems (I'm unsure as to whether this was good advice or not).

I purchased the laptop via ebay and the vendor, to their credit, has been great with support before and after. They had emailed me a link to the office website and advised that it could be downloaded afterwards. I can't criticise them for this not working as I assume they believed it would. I've contacted them about the situation so perhaps they can explain how I can resolve the issue.

Thanks again for your help with this

 

Installing fresh did you not leave the original hdd untouched? if so you can reinstall it and then do the image. If not the vendor hopefully should be able to help out...............

 

You can use telephone activation to get Office 2010 activated again on your SSD. Alternatively, you can probably try a tool like this one, although I can't guarantee that it'll work--I haven't used that one before.

Generally with SSDs, you should do a clean install, for alignment reasons. It's just less of a headache that way.

 

Yeah it is still untouched (for now). Well, the thing is, after installing Windows I then installed all the applications I need on the computer. Not to mention all the drivers etc. It would be a bit of a pain to go through all that again. Would take several hours (as I made a lot of configuration changes to optimise it for the SSD).

Suppose I could try and install everything I need on the HDD when I have time and then backup the image and reinstall it on the SSD when I can.

What software do you recommend for doing this?

Also, is it advisable to do this on an SSD. I thought that it was better to install windows fresh on an SSD rather than install an image on it.

 

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Thanks. I have the tokens backed up using a similar script. The HDD still has windows on it if I need to do it again.

Where do you telephone to activate 2010. For the life of me I can't find any contact number on Microsoft for Office, only for Windows. If I can activate it by telephone it would save me a lot of hassle as I could simply download the software again.