Hi everyone,

I helped a friend of mine do a clean install of Windows 98 onto his
machine, as his existing copy had pretty much been overrun by spyware
and was plagued by error messages for missing dll’s, etc.

When we did this, we also added a new hard drive to the system, with
the intent of running the old hard drive as a slave.  The old hard
drive still contains the messed-up copy of Win98, along with all his
other programs and files which he still wants access to.

The problem is, we can’t run Word or Excel off the old hard drive,
it just gives an error message prompts us to run setup.  We don’t
have a setup disk for Word and Excel because they were OEM programs
that came with the computer.  The computer system is still the same,
we just added a hard drive and made the old one a slave.

Is there a way to run these programs now that they’re on the slave
hard drive, maybe using regedit or something?  OR, is there a way to
transfer them to the new hard drive to get them running?  We don’t
really care which drive they’re on, as long as they’re working.

If we disconnect the new HD and reconnect the old HD as a master, Word
and Excel still run fine, it’s just cumbersome because Win98 is so
corrupt on that drive, and unfortunately the restore disk is long
gone.

Joe G