Mac M1 parallels with windows 11, Office 2003 and some older programs.

Discussion in 'Installation and Configuration of Parallels Desktop' started by JulianV1, Nov 27, 2023.

  1. JulianV1

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    Hello all.
    Very new to parallels and windows 11. Moved to a Mac M1 last year. Before I was using my old PC with win 7 and office 2003. I have also some very old programs which I would like to bring into Win11.

    I can't get win 7 to install as a new system. I made an ISO disk out of the old CDrom. It won't let me install. says it's an Intel base system.
    I then tried to install from CDrom into win 11, the old Office 2003. Win11 starts to install win11 pro, even though I have active it. It does not install Office 2003.
    I bought a SATA docking station so that I could put my old drives in and use the data. I thought the programs might run from the old drives in win11 without installing. They don't. Then I wanted to install each software program into win11 and just pull the data from the disks. I can see the data, but need the old programs to be working. Access for example. I have an old data base which I want to open in win11.
    Does anyone know how I can install Office 2003 into the win11 arm system on parallels on the M1 chip set.
     
  2. JulianV1

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    I was able to install office 2003, my mistake was that the ISO disk that I made was being read by the Default CD/DVD. I assumed that this was my CD/DVD. When I went to the physical CD/DVD drive I found my office CD and installed it. I have a new problem. I have an old access database and I am try to open it. It says the path is incorrect. I keep trying new paths but I getting the same error all the time.
    Verify that the drive is valid and the path is 260 characters or less in length.
    I'm trying
    \\Macintosh HD\Users\TTTTT\Documents\database.mdb
    and
    C:\Users\TTTTT\Documents\database.mdb
    Finding the path in Parallels is not really easy as C: is not visible in the finder. So if anyone has an idea, let me know.
     

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