Changed hard drive letter, now updates don't work

[BB]

Hi, I have rationalised my drive letters so that my two hard drives are C:
and D:. D was previously F: I installed Office on the F: drive before I
changed it to D:

Now you might think modern software could cope with this but, no, it can't.
Office updates now fail. When I put in my Office CD on trying to 'repair' it
tells me drive F: is invalid and stops the repair. When I try to reinstall
Office from CD it tells me the same thing. What a nightmare! (Incidentally
OpenOffice managed the change without any intervention on my part)

I have been through the registry manually changing all references to the old
F: to the new D:. No change. Office works ok, just can't update or reinstall.
I have seven Office updates that continously try to load and fail, time after
time after time. Driving me nuts!

Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

Regards
Bob

 

[BB]

Answered my own question... there is a hidden file called MSOcache that
stores which drive Office was loaded on to. It sticks to this drive letter
like the proverbial to a blanket.

However Microsoft also provide the solution.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=10fa7aa3-695b-42c3-9045-b812ba0fed3e

It is a utility called LISTool and allows you to change the drive letter for
Office.

What a right carry on, there's security, outright paranoia and MS
programming!

Regards
Bob