Re: Help! Office 2000 pro install broke my win2k box
- From: "Can-So" <do-not-reply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 20:09:13 -0300
Well I have never had issues before by deleting them. All other software
runs fine. But as I mentioned back up first if problems arise put them
back.If you wish look through the registry subfolders and you will see they
are related to components or plugins of office.
"Dave Brown" <softwaredave@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Apologies, this turned out to be a long one....
>
> I made the mistake of using an NTFS mounted striped partition as
> c:\program files, and another striped partition as c:\documents and
> settings. I've just got some new hard drives and wanted to put an
> uberfast machine together.
> Everything is fine, installed Visual Studio and all my other apps,
> worked on it for a week, sweet, then installed Office 2000 Pro. Bang.
> Everything went horrible, everything died. Rebooted to find that all my
> documents and applications were gone. Everything. And I had a new
> desktop. And my profile folder had been changed to "my name.my
> computername". And my original profile folder was empty.
>
> After one heart attack, and cutting a long story short...
> What had happened is that my mounted partitions had been dismounted and
> were in limbo, and the installer had created new, empty, c:\documents
> and settings and c:\program files, into which office had been
> installed.
> On top of that, things were... well, clunky.
> Luckily, I figured out what had happened because the folder icons had
> changed from a "drive" icon (for the mounted partitions) to a normal
> folder icon.
> When I ran disk management, I found my partitions, and the data on them
> was ok.
>
> After a few deep breaths, I rebooted into a second, clean win2k
> installation that I keep on the same machine, different drive. From
> there I can replace the mounted partitions as c:\program files etc,
> while renaming the folders that Office setup made. Rebooted again into
> my main win2k installation, to find everything was fine, clunkyness
> gone, etc. Except obviously Office is not installed. Well, I say "not
> installed", but of course the registry is full of references to it. So
> I really need to uninstall somehow.
>
> I'm now extremely nervous about using *anything* to do with the office
> installer, but I figured that first of all, it won't be happy
> uninstalling if it can't find the folders that it made. So, i could
> copy them across into my mounted program files from the program files
> that it created, then try uninstalling. However looking at the
> registry, it's full of C:\Progra~1\Micros~1\Office entries. Of course
> in my mounted version, Micros~1 is NOT "Microsoft Office", it's
> actually Microsoft Frontpage. So I don't think the uninstall will work.
> I suppose I could go through the registry searching for Micros~1 and
> changing to to Micros~4, but that's not going to be fun.
>
> Ok, boot back into my clean win2k version, rename my mounted partions
> on c:, replace the "program files" and "documents and settings" that
> the installer made. Copy the Administrator folder across from my
> mounted version of docs & settings into "docs & settings" that the
> installer made. Reboot, login as administrator, hmm, takes a long time.
> Anyway, ran control panel, hmmm takes a long time. Ran Add/Remove
> Programs to get the fantastic message "There are no programs installed
> on this computer". <sigh>
>
> My theory is that if I can get rid of the current **ck-up that is the
> office installation, I should be able to install it by unmounting,
> copying to real folder, installing, copying to mounted version,
> remounting. But first I'm pretty sure I'll need to remove the current
> mess.
>
> Googling the groups shows that I'm not the only person this has
> happened to. I have to ask, though:
> 1. WTF is the installer doing unmounting partitions?
> 2. What's with the 8.3 filenames?
> 3. Does anyone understand what I've just said or is it unintelligible?
>
.
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