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Bill
Flightless Bird
Hello, Bob,
I hope you're still on the air with MS. I have a similar question to
Steve's from 4 years ago.
I have two valid Office 2003 Professional upgrade installations on two
different machines. For one machine, there was a problem with the hard drive
that could only be repaired by reformatting. When I attempted reinstallation
of Office 2003 Professional using the upgrade disk, it asked for the
underlying version (Office XP Professional, in this case), which I had as an
upgrade version. It did not recognize this as valid and "hung" the
installation at the verification point. I tried using all the previous valid
underlying Office software disks I have but experienced similar installation
failures, presumably because all were upgrade versions. Is there any fix for
this problem? (My short range solution was to buy and install a full version
of one of the Office 2007 family.)
This is an important question because, on my other machine, running a
similarly valid and unique Office 2003 Professional program, I'm planning to
essentially rebuild the machine with more RAM and a new, much larger capacity
hard drive. I'm delaying that, though, because I don't want not to be able
to reinstall Office 2003 Professional from my upgrade disk. Again, can you
offer any assistance here? My recollection is that this has not been a
problem before, when I've changed computers or hard drives; the previous
version, even though an upgrade, has always been sufficient to get the later
upgrade version installed.
Bill
"Bob Buckland ?" wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
>
> In addition to programs stored on a hard drive Office relies on a large number of registry entries as well. If you moved an
> existing drive from being the Operating System drive to an additional data drive on another computer those registry entries aren't
> in play in the new configuration.
>
> If you have the disks fro the Office XP upgrade when you install Office 2003 you should generally be able to use that CD as the
> qualifying product to 'show' the installation program during the Office 2003 installation.
>
> ==========
> <<"Steve" <Steve@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1DFD3F81-A8E7-4AA7-89B3-7F65EB8650C2@microsoft.com...
> I had two computers. The computer that had Office 2003 on it died, so I took
> the hard drive with Office 2003 on it and made it part of my second computer.
> Windows assigned it G: drive.
>
> When I tried to run any of the office programs it gave me the error message
> that "The Operating System is currently not configured to run this
> application." I tried to reinstall/repair Office 2003 with the CD (Upgrade),
> but when I tried to do it, it said that it can't find a copy of Office
> 97/Office XP. I pointed it to the G: drive but it still said it can't find
> it.
>
> I no longer have my original Office 97 CD. I only have the upgrade versions
> of Office XP and Office 2003. Is there any way I can get this going again?
>
> Thanks. >>
> --
> Let us know if this helped you,
>
> Bob Buckland ?
> MS Office System Products MVP
>
> *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
>
> For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
> http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx
>
>
>
>
I hope you're still on the air with MS. I have a similar question to
Steve's from 4 years ago.
I have two valid Office 2003 Professional upgrade installations on two
different machines. For one machine, there was a problem with the hard drive
that could only be repaired by reformatting. When I attempted reinstallation
of Office 2003 Professional using the upgrade disk, it asked for the
underlying version (Office XP Professional, in this case), which I had as an
upgrade version. It did not recognize this as valid and "hung" the
installation at the verification point. I tried using all the previous valid
underlying Office software disks I have but experienced similar installation
failures, presumably because all were upgrade versions. Is there any fix for
this problem? (My short range solution was to buy and install a full version
of one of the Office 2007 family.)
This is an important question because, on my other machine, running a
similarly valid and unique Office 2003 Professional program, I'm planning to
essentially rebuild the machine with more RAM and a new, much larger capacity
hard drive. I'm delaying that, though, because I don't want not to be able
to reinstall Office 2003 Professional from my upgrade disk. Again, can you
offer any assistance here? My recollection is that this has not been a
problem before, when I've changed computers or hard drives; the previous
version, even though an upgrade, has always been sufficient to get the later
upgrade version installed.
Bill
"Bob Buckland ?" wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
>
> In addition to programs stored on a hard drive Office relies on a large number of registry entries as well. If you moved an
> existing drive from being the Operating System drive to an additional data drive on another computer those registry entries aren't
> in play in the new configuration.
>
> If you have the disks fro the Office XP upgrade when you install Office 2003 you should generally be able to use that CD as the
> qualifying product to 'show' the installation program during the Office 2003 installation.
>
> ==========
> <<"Steve" <Steve@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1DFD3F81-A8E7-4AA7-89B3-7F65EB8650C2@microsoft.com...
> I had two computers. The computer that had Office 2003 on it died, so I took
> the hard drive with Office 2003 on it and made it part of my second computer.
> Windows assigned it G: drive.
>
> When I tried to run any of the office programs it gave me the error message
> that "The Operating System is currently not configured to run this
> application." I tried to reinstall/repair Office 2003 with the CD (Upgrade),
> but when I tried to do it, it said that it can't find a copy of Office
> 97/Office XP. I pointed it to the G: drive but it still said it can't find
> it.
>
> I no longer have my original Office 97 CD. I only have the upgrade versions
> of Office XP and Office 2003. Is there any way I can get this going again?
>
> Thanks. >>
> --
> Let us know if this helped you,
>
> Bob Buckland ?
> MS Office System Products MVP
>
> *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
>
> For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
> http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx
>
>
>
>