reinstll of Office 2000

[Sailorman]

Yet another new computer and reinstall question. I had Office 2000 Pro on my
old computer that died. The hard disk is still good and i have it in the new
computer running XP Home SP3. I am trying to get the office products to run
- I have my CD and product key, but the setup program won't recognize the
existing product on the old drive. What do I do now?? I have Office 2007 on
Vista on my laptop - UGH! and am not looking forward to buying a new copy of
that!

 

[Gordon]

Yet another new computer and reinstall question. I had Office 2000 Pro on
my
old computer that died. The hard disk is still good and i have it in the
new
computer running XP Home SP3. I am trying to get the office products to
run
- I have my CD and product key, but the setup program won't recognize the
existing product on the old drive.

You need to do a Repair install.

 

[Sailorman]

Thanks, Gordon, for response!
OK - to do a repair install I think I need to see the Office program in
control panel install/remove program. Since I have a new master hard drive
and the old drive is a slave - the office products that I have aren't
"installed" in the registry. When I attempt to run setup - it doesn't find
the existing programs on the second (old) drive. Yet, I can see them
(Excel.exe) on my drive and in fact can start them but get the error message
"One of your object libraries (vbaen32.olb) is missing or damaged. Please run
setup to install it." When I then click OK I get a message that says "the
program has not been installed for the current user. Please run setup to
install the application." Now what???

 

[DL]

You cannot run any programs that were installed on your old slave drive, you
can access data on the old slave drive.
You need to install any programs you want to run, eg Office, on your new,
windows, hard drive.
Reason: Installing a program adds files/folders and registry entries to your
current windows (boot drive) if the program hasnt been installed on your
current windows drive it wont work