need trial version to reinstall upgrade...

[WBrian]

Hi All,
I am trying to recover my wife's laptop for her. We needed to install a new
hard drive as the old was hit by a power surge and is unreadable. The laptop
came with MD office 2003 trial installed from HP. We went out and bought the
upgrade to the office SBE 2003 and installed it. But once the drive went
bad, I cannot install this upgrade unless I have an existing office product
to install over. I can't seem to find a place to download the trial version
of office 2003.

How can I work around this? I have the box and discs for the upgrade, so my
code will be fine. I thought that during the upgrade install, I could choose
the phone registration option and get the software unregistered from my old
drive and registered to the new drive. But I can't get that far in the
process without the trial version...

Help! and Thanks!
Brian

 

[WBrian]

And onwe more thing,
If I install a trial version of office 2007, can I install the SBE 2003
offfice upgrade over that?

Thanks!
Brian

 

[DL]

I dont believe a trial version of Office is qualifying version for an
upgrade.
Possibly your HP had Works, or similar installed, which would have been a
qualifying version

Presumably your HP was supplied with no recovery disks, or you failed to
make the disks via the hidden partition?

 

[DL]

No

And onwe more thing,
If I install a trial version of office 2007, can I install the SBE 2003
offfice upgrade over that?

Thanks!
Brian

 

[WBrian]

Hi DL,
Thanks for getting back to me on this. I do in fact, have discs for MS
Works. But I recall having a trial of office 2003 and installing the upgrade
over that. But as I am getting old, I certainly couold be wrong. Am I
understanding you correctly in that if I install MS Works, I can install the
Office 2003 SBE upgrade over that? That'd be fine. As long as my wife gets
her Office back, she'll be thrilled. She won't care (nor will I) as to how
we get there!

Thanks again,
Brian

 

[LVTravel]

You shouldn't have to install Works. During the install when the install
program says it can't find a qualifying product you should be able to insert
the Works CD in the drive, click on OK and then after it reads it reinsert
the Office CD when prompted.

 

[WBrian]

Excellent!
Thanks a bunch.
Brian

You shouldn't have to install Works. During the install when the install
program says it can't find a qualifying product you should be able to insert
the Works CD in the drive, click on OK and then after it reads it reinsert
the Office CD when prompted.

 

[WBrian]

MS Works perfectly fine, Exactly as you said,; put it in the drive after
prompted for an "Office Product" and that allowed the install to continue.

Thanks again,
Brian

 

[LVTravel]

Super information and glad to have helped.

MS Works perfectly fine, Exactly as you said,; put it in the drive after
prompted for an "Office Product" and that allowed the install to continue.

Thanks again,
Brian