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Afternoon all
Just got that s/h ACER X275 I ordered for use as a HTPC in the lounge, and it comes with a 500GB disk, WIN 7 Pro 64 bit and preinstalled MSOffice 2010 H&B (£29 installed by the supplier - could not pass that up!). However the disk has only has 1 partition, and I want to repartition it into 3 (C:\, D:\, E:\) partitions as I normally do, and then move MSOffice to the 2nd one.
Partitioning is no problem in itself as I already have older tools (Acronis Disk Director 11, and several free ones like Paragon Hard Disk Manager 15) which can do that, but they don't include the facility to migrate installed programmes from one partition to another and keep all the internal links working. However I know that there are s/w tools that can do that, but I haven't recently, if ever, used any of those.
Therefore I'm hoping that someone here can give some suitable suggestions - preferably free s/w, of course!
Thanks in advance
Edited:
Just found out that the supplier, which is an MS Registered Refurbisher, included the MSOffice 2010 H&B Product Key in their paperwork, and as I already have a full (not OEM) copy of the s/w disks, I wondering if I can simply partition the disk and install Office on the 2nd partition from my disks and then activate that with the Product Key supplied with the m/c?
That would be much simpler/quicker/less risky than migrating it from C:\ to D:\ - even so, I would still appreciate some pointers on migration s/w that will work from one partition to another and/as opposed to from one disk to another.
Just got that s/h ACER X275 I ordered for use as a HTPC in the lounge, and it comes with a 500GB disk, WIN 7 Pro 64 bit and preinstalled MSOffice 2010 H&B (£29 installed by the supplier - could not pass that up!). However the disk has only has 1 partition, and I want to repartition it into 3 (C:\, D:\, E:\) partitions as I normally do, and then move MSOffice to the 2nd one.
Partitioning is no problem in itself as I already have older tools (Acronis Disk Director 11, and several free ones like Paragon Hard Disk Manager 15) which can do that, but they don't include the facility to migrate installed programmes from one partition to another and keep all the internal links working. However I know that there are s/w tools that can do that, but I haven't recently, if ever, used any of those.
Therefore I'm hoping that someone here can give some suitable suggestions - preferably free s/w, of course!
Thanks in advance
Edited:
Just found out that the supplier, which is an MS Registered Refurbisher, included the MSOffice 2010 H&B Product Key in their paperwork, and as I already have a full (not OEM) copy of the s/w disks, I wondering if I can simply partition the disk and install Office on the 2nd partition from my disks and then activate that with the Product Key supplied with the m/c?
That would be much simpler/quicker/less risky than migrating it from C:\ to D:\ - even so, I would still appreciate some pointers on migration s/w that will work from one partition to another and/as opposed to from one disk to another.
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