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Charles P
Originally, I had 2 60 gig drives setup, both patritioned
as 30's, o/s (xp pro) installed on one partition, and
other set up as logical drive. the other drive was set up
as a image, and hidden. If I go any further than setting
up the hidden drive as 60 gig, and making it active,
hiding the other 30 gig partition on the other drive with
the o/s, I get errors from ALL of the office xp products
telling me I need to reactivate them, put the install
disk in....
When I put the install disk in nothing happens, the
errors go away, but the next time I go back in the same
program, it happens again. If I try to run the setup off
the office xp disks, it tells me that the patch is
invalid. I have previously downloaded and installed SP 2
for all the products, and it worked fine, except telling
me that the installer may be corrupt. other than the fact
that it totally disabled publisher (which I don't use
much) it was ok.
Now for the question:
I would like to make some hardware changes to get more
room on my drives, (put 2-4 120 gig drives on the raid
controller) and get around this problem. other than
uninstalling all the office products, and reinstalling
them, downloading 2 service packs (HUGE) for each of
them, is there another way around this?
(if I enable the raid controller with no drives attached
to it, office xp has the above problems...currently
running on a 60 gig drive set up as "c", and it works ok
now)
note: I'm not changing the motherboard, memory, or bios,
just using what I had originially to better suit my needs.
motherboard is abit kr7a raid board, that has 2 primary
ide controllers, and 2 ide connectors for raid, the
controllers for raid can be used for a standard hard
drive, without setting up the raid functions.
that is why I want to add additional drives to increase
space, becuase I have support for them on the motherboard.
I'm not trying to bootleg a copy of a registered program
that I bought, just wanting to set hardware up
diffrently, and wanting it to work.
Thanks
Charles
as 30's, o/s (xp pro) installed on one partition, and
other set up as logical drive. the other drive was set up
as a image, and hidden. If I go any further than setting
up the hidden drive as 60 gig, and making it active,
hiding the other 30 gig partition on the other drive with
the o/s, I get errors from ALL of the office xp products
telling me I need to reactivate them, put the install
disk in....
When I put the install disk in nothing happens, the
errors go away, but the next time I go back in the same
program, it happens again. If I try to run the setup off
the office xp disks, it tells me that the patch is
invalid. I have previously downloaded and installed SP 2
for all the products, and it worked fine, except telling
me that the installer may be corrupt. other than the fact
that it totally disabled publisher (which I don't use
much) it was ok.
Now for the question:
I would like to make some hardware changes to get more
room on my drives, (put 2-4 120 gig drives on the raid
controller) and get around this problem. other than
uninstalling all the office products, and reinstalling
them, downloading 2 service packs (HUGE) for each of
them, is there another way around this?
(if I enable the raid controller with no drives attached
to it, office xp has the above problems...currently
running on a 60 gig drive set up as "c", and it works ok
now)
note: I'm not changing the motherboard, memory, or bios,
just using what I had originially to better suit my needs.
motherboard is abit kr7a raid board, that has 2 primary
ide controllers, and 2 ide connectors for raid, the
controllers for raid can be used for a standard hard
drive, without setting up the raid functions.
that is why I want to add additional drives to increase
space, becuase I have support for them on the motherboard.
I'm not trying to bootleg a copy of a registered program
that I bought, just wanting to set hardware up
diffrently, and wanting it to work.
Thanks
Charles