Outlook error on Send and Receive "Unknown Error 0x8007007E"

[Clem Devine]

I have upgraded my Hard Drive and copied all of my c:\ drive back to the new
drive.
Everything is working fine except Outlook which gives me this error on "send
and receive". All else in Outlook looks and works fine. I have tried a
"detect and repair" but as I cannot find my original Office 2003 disk it will
not complete. I have validated the .pst file and registered various .dll's
Don't know what else to try, any suggestions?

My Computer; Dell Inspiron 9300 XP SP2 Office 2003

 

[Clem Devine]

Hi, I have updated the latest Outlook Update and it seems to have fixed the
problem. I still don't understand why a copy of the disk drive that is
restored can cause so much trouble! Hopefully everything will be OK...

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Hi, I have updated the latest Outlook Update and it seems to have fixed
the
problem. I still don't understand why a copy of the disk drive that is
restored can cause so much trouble! Hopefully everything will be OK...

That may not be the only problem you run into. Some disk copy programs
don't actually copy all files. Once when I got a new drive, the cloning
software that came with it neglected to include the C:\Windows\Installer
folder and I couldn't update anything until I copied that file over
manually.

 

[Clem Devine]

Hi Brian, Thanks for the response. What I did was boot from a bootable dvd
and then copied all C drive using the dvd file manager. I checked the total
of the files on the backup usb drive before copying it back. It should not
have created any problem and still can't think why outlook was affected. One
thing was when I tried to update office the ms office wga tool was not
installed and I now think the whole problem might be something built into
Outlook to try to prevent it being cloned from one computer disk to another.
What do you think? All of my system seems fine now... (touch wood)

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Hi Brian, Thanks for the response. What I did was boot from a bootable dvd
and then copied all C drive using the dvd file manager. I checked the
total
of the files on the backup usb drive before copying it back. It should not
have created any problem and still can't think why outlook was affected.
One
thing was when I tried to update office the ms office wga tool was not
installed and I now think the whole problem might be something built into
Outlook to try to prevent it being cloned from one computer disk to
another.
What do you think? All of my system seems fine now... (touch wood)

Outlook doesn't have anything in it that prevents cloning. Microsoft
Activation, however, might detect the change and require a reactivation.

 

[BobH]

I have the identical problem caused by the identical procedure.

Can someone please point me to the "updated the latest Outlook Update" that
this guy is referring to? All I find is updates about fonts and languages
and stuff.

I get the same 0x8007007E error message when I do a Send/Receive. Sent
messages are handled with no problem

I've searched the web for this issue and tried all kinds of fixes so far,
none have worked. I have not done a uninstall/reinstall of Office 2003 yet
because several people with this issue said it didn't work. But, I'm willing
to try.

Windows XP SP3 - Dell Dimension 2400 - Office 2003