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by wesley.chin

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there are some installations of Office 2000 here. There is a bug that MS has not patched yet. It does not affect 2007 or anything that has SP3. There is one installation of 2000 for which the original CD does not exist but the CD does exist for another installation.

My question is can a CD used on another computer be used for applying SP3 on another computer?

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by robo_dev

The best bet is to burn a CD with only SP3 on it, that way you save time avoiding the Windows install menu.

by wesley.chin

There is another machine with 2000 on it. When applying SP3 to it, there was a prompt for the original installation CDs.

The CDs for the other installation that I am trying to put SP3 on does not have the CDs.

From your reply, are you suggesting that burning a SP3 CD will allow bypass of the prompt for original installation CDs?

I am considering whether the Office 2000 installation is OEM. If that is the case, I wonder if I need CDs...

by ic-it

Will display an OEM tag in the Help, About section.
This will help you determine if it is an OEM disk.
Office won't care if it was a different OEM disk originally used to install it.
The reason it asks for the CD is that on the original install it was not done with the option to maintain the install data on the hard drive.

by wesley.chin

To make sure I have it right, if I have CD1 used for one install A and CD2 for install B, I can use CD1 when prompted for it in updating install B?

by ic-it

They are the same type i.e. OEM or Retail, etc

by wesley.chin

Still trying to get SP3 on.

the installion is SR-1. SP3 requires SR-1a before install. So I try to install SR-1a but does not work. I am installing SR-1a via a download. the message is that the data2.msi file is not valid.

When applying SP3 directly, prompt is for the installation Disc 2. When put in, it contines to prompt for Disc 2.

Have tried copying the contents of the CD to hard disk and running it that way, but no cigar.

I have checked and see that the installation is OEM. But as I had mentioned, the discs that came with the computer have been lost.

It almost seems like it is detecting that the installation CD is not the original one. The CD used is from another Office 2000 installation on a separate PC.

by seanferd

but sometimes, either the SP is somehow damaged, or it is a problem with the microsoft installer. These things can be repaired by re-installing the last SP applied to the system.

I don't know if it will stop asking you for the CD for sure, but I don't know why it is asking for 'disk 2' in the first place. What disk 2 is there? So it sounds like an error to me.

I might also suggest a registry cleaner that will clear the InstallLocationsMRU, or a simple reg search and delete. Sometimes Windows is looking for something in a Most Recently Used list that does not exist, and it can't hurt to delete these entries.

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