Re: Corrupt Office 2003 Student and Teacher Disc

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Problem solved. It cannot be read by DVD drives but CD drives do just fine
(combos do not work). It was installed on Windows Server 2003 machine so I
put the disc in that one again, connected via Remote Desktop, made an image
of the disc and then VirtualBox ran straight from the image and installed
without a hitch. Working on VirtualPC now to see if it can straight from an
image too. If not, I'll just use the server's copy thanks to Remote Desktop.

Thanks for the suggestions and trying to help. I know it doesn't make sense
that CD/DVD and DVD drives cannot read the disc but that's exactly what is
happening. I'm backing up the image to both my servers and making a physical
backup copy that should work fine in any drive (I hope). Consider this
problem solved.

RN



"renichms" wrote:

The disc has worked in 1 computer (Poweredge 4400 running Windows Server
2003) and failed in 3 (Microsoft VirtualPC running Windows XP Pro, VirtualBox
running Windows XP Pro and a Compaq Presario CQ60-215DX running Windows Vista
Home Premium). Those 3 are able to start the installer for 2003 Pro and
Standard and 2007 Pro and Standard (borrowed discs to check that but have no
key for those, so no install).

For the other post above, the link doesn't go anywhere. The copy is
definitely a real one because I went to Microsoft to find VirtualPC and
Office 2003 at the same time and either got it through Microsoft or through
someone they pointed to (it has been several years). The disc has worked
before so not being a valid copy is not an issue.

RN



"DL" wrote:

With all the PC problems you appear to have, have you tried your disk on
another persons functioning PC?
At least that way you would know whether th problem was actually the disk or
your PC, which IMO is more likely the case
.

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