Can't enter product code for Office on a Vista OEM PC

I took my old bootable hard drive out (XP) and installed it into a new Vista
machine as a slave. System boots with Vista system. Microsoft office OEM is
on the Vista, and when I try to enter the product code from the Office suite
I had on my old machine it says the product code is not valid. Need some
advice that I hope is not "reload Office". Tnx. Scott

Trying to make sure I understand the question. So here are some querstions:

1) You had a version of MS Office on your XP machine? If so, what version of
Office?

2) The "Microsoft office OEM" that's on the Vista drive -- is that a trial
version? Good for a certain number of days? And what version of Office is
that? I'm assuming Office 2007.

3) So you're trying to activate the trial version of Office (the one on the
Vista drive) by using the product code from the version of Office that's on
your old XP drive? That won't work.





"sweetsco" <> wrote in message
news:3ACF20D2-A8A1-4BD2-BE3C-...
>I took my old bootable hard drive out (XP) and installed it into a new
>Vista
> machine as a slave. System boots with Vista system. Microsoft office OEM
> is
> on the Vista, and when I try to enter the product code from the Office
> suite
> I had on my old machine it says the product code is not valid. Need some
> advice that I hope is not "reload Office". Tnx. Scott

Hi,

They're not interchangable. Niether retail/OEM or different versions. You'd
have to either purchase a key for OEM install on the Vista machine or remove
it and reinstall your Office Suite from the original installation media
using the original product key on the old machine.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"sweetsco" <> wrote in message
news:3ACF20D2-A8A1-4BD2-BE3C-...
>I took my old bootable hard drive out (XP) and installed it into a new
>Vista
> machine as a slave. System boots with Vista system. Microsoft office OEM
> is
> on the Vista, and when I try to enter the product code from the Office
> suite
> I had on my old machine it says the product code is not valid. Need some
> advice that I hope is not "reload Office". Tnx. Scott

Tnx, Rick. When I got my old XP PC, it had an OEM/trial version on it. I
decided to purchase a licensed version, did so from Best Buy, brought it
home, and I don't remember exactly how it worked, but I remember I didn't
have to load the licensed version at all, I just entered the product code at
some point. It ran fine. Maybe this won't work on this new Vista machine???
Sounds like it from your note below. Tnx.

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> They're not interchangable. Niether retail/OEM or different versions. You'd
> have to either purchase a key for OEM install on the Vista machine or remove
> it and reinstall your Office Suite from the original installation media
> using the original product key on the old machine.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "sweetsco" <> wrote in message
> news:3ACF20D2-A8A1-4BD2-BE3C-...
> >I took my old bootable hard drive out (XP) and installed it into a new
> >Vista
> > machine as a slave. System boots with Vista system. Microsoft office OEM
> > is
> > on the Vista, and when I try to enter the product code from the Office
> > suite
> > I had on my old machine it says the product code is not valid. Need some
> > advice that I hope is not "reload Office". Tnx. Scott
>
>