installing 2nd office 2003 license on laptop fails

[Douglas McPhaden]

I bought a laptop and tried to install my Office 2003 professional edition on
it from the original purchased media.

The installation would not start. Any ideas?

Could this have something to do with different primary user names on the
computers?

 

[DL]

Were your disks retail copies or an OEM edition?
Its got nothing to do with user names.
And if you examine the cd in explorer, and double click setup, what happens?
And before all that did you uninstall any Office trial edition first?

 

[Douglas McPhaden]

DL

Your suggestions got me started.

The installation completed, but no software was visible because I still had
to cancel out the Product Key pop-up.

After that I did a repair installation. It seemed to work. When I clicked
on activate it said the product was already activated.

Thanks very much.

Doug