I cannot install Office 2000 in Windows XP

[MrBurns]

I have a dual-boot-system w/ Win98SE and WinXP Professional.


Until now I only had Office installed on Win98. Today I wanted to install it from the same CD on XP. When the setup was about half finished I got an error message, that some protected system files couldnt be overwritten. I didnt have that problem on any installation yet. I am the only user on my system, so I should have admin-rights.

I also tried to install the program in safe mode. I could access the CD in safe mode, but I got an error-message, that Windows-Installer is not avaialble and one of the reasons for this could be, that I am in safe mode.


Does anyone know a method, how I can install Office?

[Direct1]

How do you have your hdd's partitioned? Ideally, you have Win98 on C: and XP on another drive or partition. You should also have seperate partitions or drives for your win98 programs and XP programs.

[r8500]

Does it give you an error number with that error message?

[MrBurns]

I have WinXP and 98 on two different partitions on the same drive, but I also installed Win98-programs on the XP-partition, because it is much smaller (10GB for thw Win98 partition, 32GB for the XP-partition). I have a third FAT32 partition, but I want to use it mainly for Linux-programs, because I found out, that my 3GB Linux-partition is a little small.

The error-number is 1933 if I remember right.

[r8500]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314812&Product=ofw2k

[MrBurns]

I now found out, what the problem was: it was a very stupid error I made: the system file protection shows two dialog boxes in a short time, which look exactly the same, even the text had about the same lenght. In the first one you get the question if you really want to overwrite your system files but in the second one you get the question, if you want to cancel the setup because files that must be copied from the WinXP-CD havent been found. So I choose "yes" in the first dialog box. The problem is, that I also choose "yes" in the second one, because they looked the same. To make the setup work I have to choose "yes" in the first dialog box, bot "no" in the second one. When I did it like this I didnt have any problem.

[jamesnetto]

Originally posted by MrBurns
I now found out, what the problem was: it was a very stupid error I made: the system file protection shows two dialog boxes in a short time, which look exactly the same, even the text had about the same lenght. In the first one you get the question if you really want to overwrite your system files but in the second one you get the question, if you want to cancel the setup because files that must be copied from the WinXP-CD havent been found. So I choose "yes" in the first dialog box. The problem is, that I also choose "yes" in the second one, because they looked the same. To make the setup work I have to choose "yes" in the first dialog box, bot "no" in the second one. When I did it like this I didnt have any problem.

I did almost exactly that! Deja-vu! Great minds think alike