Office 2011 needing product key

[shirtuser1989]

When I used SuperDuper to clone my Mac hard drive with Microsoft Office 2011 when I start the new drive I need to enter my Microsoft Office 2011 product key. Why is that? Can it be prevented?

Thank you for looking.

[dnanian]

That is because Office is copy protected. It's something you'd have to discuss with Microsoft - it's not legal for us to circumvent their protection.