Recovery of Office Pro 2003 from full system backup disk, NO JOY

[C Reyn]

Running WinXP SP3 on HP Pavilion A1250N Desktop, plenty of horsepower, all
Microsoft Office Pro 2003 software registered with and validated by Gen
Advantage with Microsoft. Screwed up and formatted C: drive for NTFS, lost
all software, goodies, docs, etc. so recovered almost everything? from last
full system backup dvds. Problem: Cannot open MS Office Pro 2003 (Word,
Excel, Publisher, Access, etc); system requests installation disk which is in
Chicago, while I suffer through this indignity in Cocoa Beach, FL. Any way I
can get Microsoft to provide re-install data, product key or whatever is
needed, to get back on stride? Any other ideas on how I can cope with this
short of RT to Chicago? All reasonable suggestions for solving the problem
appreciated. I know, I know, I'll extract my head tomorrow; I gotta get this
done ASAP.

Tnx
C Reyn

 

[DL]

You need the cd's (or a copy of them) or borrow someone elses, provided its
the exact same version, and you use your own key.
IMO An image application, eg Acronis or similar, is more useful than a
system backup