Unable to repair Office XP

[mjmonti]

I just upgraded my hard drive (used BounceBack to back-up drive) and had to
re-activate and repair XP after switching to new hard drive since the machine
had gone under major changes since original installation.

Same for Norton.

Now, Office XP Standard (for Students and Teachers) programs won't work.
When I click on Outlook, my Inbox appears and then a pop-up: Microsoft Word
10.0 -- An error occurred and this feature is no longer functioning properly.
Please run Setup and select "Repair ..." to restore this application.

Then the window for MS Office Activation Wizard appears. I put in the CD,
click OK, and nothing. It says "preparing to install ....." and then closes.
Same thing with the other Office programs. I accidemtally put in the
Content CD, and it says it's looking for the file: stdedu.msi.

I put in the Installation CD, and nothing.

If I double-click on setup.exe on the Installation CD, I get a message: This
patch package could not be opened. Verify that the patch package exists and
that you can access it, or contact the application vendor to verify that this
is a valid Windows Installer patch package.

Help!

 

[Mary Sauer]

You receive the "This patch package could not be opened" error message in an Office
program
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/295823/en-us