Help Unambiguosly Re-activete MS Office

[C1]

I just revised my notebook (re-imaged to different HDD + increased C partition) and MS Office XP (ie, 2002) wants me to insert disk for install then re-activate because of sensed changes to the system.

The issue is that I have a bunch of computers using different MS Office XPs.

Please help me to correlate picking the correct disk for the "install/activate". (The product IDs are all the same except for the last set of digits, but these do not seem to correlate to anything on the Office disk packaging, including product key fields).

As you can guess, I dont want MS to think that Im trying to use the same program on different platforms.

Thanks in advance

 

[ArisVer]

One way is to put back the old disk (provided you have not erased it) and retrieve the key using software.

Edit. produkey displays the ProductID of Office 2003 and possibly the CD key.

 

[Puffnstuff]

You might want to mark all of the software so you know which machine it is on in the future. I do this with multiple pc's so I don't mix up the software between them.

 

[dbcooper1]

I think Magic Jelly Bean does what you need if it's still available.

 

[Ketchup]

I didn't think office that far back cared about such things. Make sure this message isn't actually coming from Windows.

 

[Mushkins]

Are you missing the product key itself, or is it just asking for you to insert the physical media as some halfhearted DRM measure?

If you already have the product keys in there and it's just asking for the media, toss in any old Office XP disk. They are all 100% exactly the same, the key does not correlate to the physical media at all.

 

[Z15CAM]

Suggest you backup your Office "OPA**.bak" file before migrating your Win OS to a different Platform or say New Hardware.

Don't delete that Office OPA**.bak file - Save it and Note it's location but it's location is different with every MS OS.

I'm probably in **** Period.