Pulling files from old Hrivedrive

Last week I was on my Dell dimension 4700 XP when BOOM my Power Supply blew up. I have a like new Dell dimension 3000 XP as a back up PC.

What Did I Do?
1.) I put the Dell 4700 hard drive in the Dell 3000 and it doesn't work as the primary hard drive. I get the floppy drive 0 seek error. I tried everything in the boot menu that anyone could try to get around this.

2.) At this time I tried to recover data from HD recovery programs (no help)

3.) As a last resort, I tapped on the case of the hard drive with a small ball pin hammer and put it in the new Dell dimension 3000 as a non boot-able "slave" and it worked.

4.) Took the old slave back out to make primary and it still gets the same 0 seek error.

5.) I put back the old/bad HD back in the Dell 3000 as a slave and I can see everything on the hard drive.

Basically I started to recover all my files by pulling from the old F drive and put on the good hard drive C. That's all and good that I get my doc & image files back.

Here is my problem....
I have a Microsoft Office full ver on my Old/Bad F drive. I can see it in the F:/programe file (see attached image)

The program was installed from a valid Microsoft Office CD that I no longer have.

As you can see from the second attachment, when I try to rum Microsoft Word from the F drive (old hard drive) it says MS word was not set up from this user. Please reinstall...

I don't see an exe to reinstall, I don't have a CD or Key. Id there a way to make this work or am I up ships creek?

Thank you for any help in advance.
Superlost6

 

Firstly, have you changed the jumpers on the HDDs?
Secondly, I believe you'll have to get the 'bad' HDD to boot in order to extract the product key for Microsoft Office - is it 2003?

 

In some BIOS there is an option to remove boot selections or ignore errors - either might get by that.

I sound like a broken record but, turn your old dead PC into a VM.
http://www.addictivetips.com/window...ical-machine-in-vmware-virtualbox-virtual-pc/
I use virtual PCs everyday.

 

Moved the white pin both times for primary & slave. I think I have the answer, I'm going to get another copy of Office 2003 as it's cheap now. Consider this case closed. Thanks!