Re: CD's not reading

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From: Mercury (Mercury_at_matchmail.net)
Date: 06/17/04


Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 21:41:05 -0400

If there are scratches on them, they are probably finished and you will have
to buy new, since MS apparently does not provide replacements for them
anymore as they are out, but I would try a good cleaning first and see if
they can be salvaged.

"trtldove" <trtldove@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F0142B08-8AF5-498D-89BA-6DFA0320F913@microsoft.com...
> Hello:
>
> I have the CD's for MS Office 2000 Standard, and MS Office 1997. I had to
add a hard drive to my machine and I need to reinstall Office 2000. My rom
is not reading either disks, but it does read other disks.
> What might be wrong?
>
> Thank you



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