Windows 10: How to boot an old Win7 drive

My old computer died but I was able to read the old drive with my new computer using Win10.
I would like to be able to boot the old drive using my new computer with Win10 or set up a partition on my new computer to run programs written that uses Office Cal 2003 on the old drive.. I can't get Office 2003 to run on the new Win10. It won't except the Product Key from my Pro Office 2003 Disk.

I did get Win10 to except my Product Key but had to do a reinstall of Win10 and now it won't except the key.. This is the reason of getting the old drive to boot so I can run my old Office 2003 programs. I prefer to be able to run my Office 2003 program on Win10 . I did run them using the Office 365 that came with the new computer but after the month trial was up I wasn't able to go back to Office 2003. Don't know if this is the reason Win10 will not allow me to enter my Key. There may be a program looking for the key from the expired Office 365 ??? I tried a second reinstall thinking I could get rid of a possible program stop but it didn't work. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated because I need the programs I spent many hours writing.

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Win10 clean install on new drive, dual boot w/win7 on old drive. New Win10 drive won't boot

As per subject line above, I did clean install of Win 10 on new drive. Left Win7 on old drive. All went fine; PC boots as long as old drive is present. Boot option screen appears at boot offering choice of Win10 or 7. Works fine. BUT, when I removed old
drive with Win7, system won't boot from new drive (C. Apparently Win10 installed boot selection and/or something critical on the OLD drive. The new drive shows the Win10 logo in File Explorer (when old drive is present), and all Win10 files appear to have
installed correctly on the new disk. But it won't boot by itself - so something is missing. (Yes, I changed the boot sequence order in the bios to look for the new drive.) But bios prompts for a bootable disk, meaning the new C: drive is "not bootable". What
gives?

Thanks for any help!!!

 

How do I set my new SSD as the only Boot/System drive?

Was the ssd on the system when you did the win10 upgrade ?

If yes then that drive may contain the windows partitions and boot loader.

If not and you did a clean install of win10 to the ssd but still had the old

win7 drive as the boot drive, then the win10 bootloader could have been installed

to that drive, this depends on the boot chain order in the bios on what drive loads

first.

The way I would have done this is clone the win10 to the new ssd, then do a clean install on

the ssd drive.

Pulling drives from the pc and swapping them for a different operating system works

if you are not mixing the same type of os or upgrade and for microsoft windows it

depends on the licences.

But to boot say linux and windows without a dual boot system you have to configure each os on

its own boot drive then swap out when needed.

How did you upgrade win10? from dvd or bootable usb or in place upgrade.

Uefi bios are a little more involved than the older legacy bios.

Note; if you remove the win7 drive, put the ssd as the first boot drive,

if it does not boot, then the boot loader is on the win7 drive.

Do you see an option to boot win7 and win10 when the pc loads.

 

Hi:

Until someone more expert comes along to answer your specific question...

Office 2003 is EOS/EOL and insecure.
If you do not wish to purchase an Office 365 subscription or pursue another means to run a supported version of MS Office, perhaps you might consider a free alternative, such as LibreOffice???

Just a thought,
MM

 

I am now using Open Office to run some of my programs but there are things I can not do that uses VB6 as part on the Office 2003 programs. One program uses daily weather data that I can't find a way to access using Open office. Getting Office 2003 to run would be a lot easier than finding all the work-a-rounds to possible get my programs to work

 

Thanks for the clarification.

At the risk of flagellating a deceased equine, Office 2003 is extremely vulnerable (especially since VB scripting is a common means of malware transmission these days). There are free and paid realtime anti-exploit security software options to help mitigate the risk for internet-facing applications, such as MS Office. But they are not 100% foolproof.

Personally, I would not risk it. But it's certainly your choice, of course.*Smile

I will defer to others who are more expert in helping you with your original plan.
I'm sorry I could not help.

Cheers,
MM

 

Connect the Windows 7 hard drive as a second hard drive in the new computer. Windows 10 should assign the Windows 7 partition a drive letter, let's say E: for example.

Right click on the start menu icon, select Command Prompt (Admin). In the elevated command prompt window that opens run:

BCDBOOT E:\Windows /d /addlast

The path in red, especially the drive letter, needs to be what Windows 10 assigned to the Windows 7 partition. If that completed successfully, reboot your computer and Windows 7 will have been added to your boot menu.

 

You could also run Windows 7 in a virtual machine. You would need a separate Windows 7 product key for that.

It seems so odd to me that you can not get the product key to work. Microsoft released a Fix it Tool to completely remove Office 365 from your computer. Try running the tool, then try installing Office 2003 again.

Uninstall Office 2016, Office 2013, or Office 365 from a PC - Office Support.

There are more detailed instructions on how to use the Fix it Tool on Dell's website. I'm sure it's same for HP computers.

How to uninstall Microsoft Office 365 from your Dell PC | Dell US

 

Using Trustme advice I was able to get my Product Key to work. Apparently there were still some of Office 2007 on my HD that stopped me from using my Key
Thanks again to Trustme.....

 

You're welcome, I'm glad it worked.