Using Programs on External Hard Drive

[wsexton]

If I take an internal hard drive from my old pc and use it as an external drive on my new pc, will I still be able to use all the programs on the external drive. Word, Excel, etc. My old pc died and I'd like to use the drive from it on a new pc. Do I have to reinstall programs, etc on the new drive?

Thanks.

 

[coldskool]

More than likely yes, especially for programs like word and excel which always store dll files in the boot drive. Of course it is possible to re-assemble all the dll files (among others) into the correct locations, register them and that sort of thing but its more trouble than its worth...