Re: Problems after migrating to new C: drive
- From: "Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:32:10 -0600
Sorry to hear about your problems. The link below is to how to use a utility
from Microsoft that will attempt to clean up such. I have not used it myself
so I can not offer any tricks or traps on using it. I would also suggest
posting in one or more [use crosspost if more than one] of the Office
newsgroups to see if anyone there has any advice on how to proceed.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290301
"Joe Bye" <JoeBye@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:CFB34ECB-A224-46ED-8092-1B2BA3051E42@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> My C: drive was full so I have just completed step one of migrating to a
> larger disk.
>
> I used Western Digital's Data Lifeguard tool to move the contents of my
> old
> drive to the new disk and to make it bootable. The good news is that
> almost
> everything worked well. I have a system that boots and runs apparently
> normally, but there are a couple of little things . . .
>
> Office is dead. When I try to start Office 2003 Pro, I get a dialog box
> suggesting that I put in the Setup disk and run repair. That doesn't
> work.
> Setup tries to locate a file that is neither on the old C: drive nor is it
> on
> the Office CDs.
>
> OK. I tried to remove Office so that I could do a reinstall. The
> Add/Remove function in the Control Panel can't remove it either. It too
> reports that a critical file is missing.
>
> I think I remember that Microsoft has a tool that will remove apps. Can
> anyone identify that and tell me where on the MS web site I can find it?
> Or,
> any ideas for getting Office remover or making the Setup program do a
> repair?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe
.
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