A clone of the disk with ghost[1] or better yet a hardware solution[2] to the new disk is going to be the "best" way to do this. This assumes the old computer i

A clone of the disk with ghost[1] or better yet a hardware solution[2] to the new disk is going to be the "best" way to do this. This assumes the old computer is widows xp + (hopefully with an up to date service pack) and there are no major compatibility issues with the new hardware. This could be a six+ hour procedure depending on how things go so if your time is worth anything to you it's going to be cheaper to come up with a new version of office and if you are trying to put the xp disk into one of those HP laptops or similar with a tone of proprietary (bad) drivers and crapware then you might have issues going from the old system to the new one. In any case this is really a serverfault.com or supperuser.com question... [1] http://goo.gl/9MaP http://goo.gl/9MaP [2] http://goo.gl/lHwD http://goo.gl/lHwD