"There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk in to drive D:."

[Developer]

Hello,

I tried to export a view from Outlook 2003. It said the feature wasn't
installed; when I tried to install it, it asked for a setup CD. Since I
installed from an ISO, I didn't have a disk... Now, Outlook keeps popping
up a dialog asking for a disk.

How do I get it to stop asking for the disk? Is there a way to use an iso
image as a disk, so I can install the export features?

TIA for any advice.

CB

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

you can mount the iso using daemon tools... that's how I do it.

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Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
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[Vanguard]

Hello,

I tried to export a view from Outlook 2003. It said the feature
wasn't installed; when I tried to install it, it asked for a setup CD.
Since I installed from an ISO, I didn't have a disk... Now, Outlook
keeps popping up a dialog asking for a disk.

How do I get it to stop asking for the disk? Is there a way to use an
iso image as a disk, so I can install the export features?

An "ISO disk" means you have an image of the [partition on the] disk.
So where is the *legal* copy of the installation media for Office? You
can't install a particular application, like Office, from an ISO image.
You *copy* that image onto your drive (which overwrites the partition),
and the image contains everything that was on the source disk in its
current state, which includes the OS and apps. Guess you'll finally
have to go buy a legitimate copy of Office (and Windows, too). If it is
one of those bastardized "install" images (often labelled as Restore or
Recovery installs) provided by Dell and other OEM vendors, all they give
you is the ability to reset your system back to the image state at which
the host was preset when delivered (i.e., everything gets wiped when the
image gets written into the partition). That is the only legal "ISO"
distribution that I know of (as an OEM install that has been
bastardized, er, customized by the computer vendor).

If the ISO image is all you have, your only solution is to use it to
overwrite everything in the partition (i.e., you get to start all over
from scratch). You could do backups of your data files before wiping it
all out on the disk, and then restore them from the backups afterward.
Of course, since the ISO image of the installation and configuration
from the source disk doesn't contain all the features for the Office
install, you'll still end up with the same problem if you attempt it
again later. Contact whomever, ahem, "gave" you the ISO distribution to
ask them for the legal installation media for Office. You probably
won't get it even if it came from a legitimate OEM.

 

[Vanguard]

you can mount the iso using daemon tools... that's how I do it.

Ah, I forgot that an ISO image could be of the install CD. I figured
the OP was asking about an image of [the partition on] the hard drive.
So, is there a legitimate distribution channel for ISO images of install
CDs for Office? Seems like the OP is asking how to use a copy from
someone else (which infers it isn't legit) who made an .iso file of
*their* install CD (so the OP doesn't have one and never had one).

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Distribution of iso's is legal (MSDN does it) - giving someone your key or
using a pilfered key to install it is not legal.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/



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you can mount the iso using daemon tools... that's how I do it.

Ah, I forgot that an ISO image could be of the install CD. I figured the
OP was asking about an image of [the partition on] the hard drive. So, is
there a legitimate distribution channel for ISO images of install CDs for
Office? Seems like the OP is asking how to use a copy from someone else
(which infers it isn't legit) who made an .iso file of *their* install CD
(so the OP doesn't have one and never had one).