Anyone have issues installing Office 2007 Professional on Windows 7RC ?
After I got Win7RC up and running and installed all of the updates, I attempted to install O2007 fromoriginalcertified MSO2007CD media. On the first attempt, the installer could not locate the outlook install files on the CD. On the second attempt, it found the outlook files, but not the Publisher files... What gives ?I have Win7RC installed on a partition I called "D:" on my Dell D830... I know that D: is usually reserved for optical media drives, but it made sense to me to have my two partitions as C: and D: ... WinXP is installed on C: partition.Has anyone else had issues or is it user error ?-Rookie
June 21st, 2009 7:52pm

Sounds like you may be having problems reading from the media. Have you tried cleaning it ? Also, you could try copying all the files from the CD to a folder on your hard drive and running the setup from there.Windows 7 x64 RC, Asrock K8NF6P, AMD64 3200+, 1.5GB RAM, Palit Geforce 8400GS 256MB, 500GB Maxtor SataII, Asus 1814BLT optical
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June 21st, 2009 8:27pm

Win7Rookie - Actually... D: is not reserved for anything in particular. The only two letters that are reserved - traditionally - are A: and B: for back in the day when computers used to come with dual floppy drives.D: is usually the default for the optical drive because most computers come with only one drive, one partition.
June 22nd, 2009 9:23am

Nope.Office 2007 Enterprise went on, no worries, works fine.My D:/ drive is for backups, installed into C:/
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June 22nd, 2009 12:37pm

Hello WIN7ROOKIE,This sounds more of a dirty or corrupt disk than user or system error. I would try the advise previously in the post and clean theCD or copy the contents to a folder and install from there. -Scott
June 22nd, 2009 8:56pm

Likewise, Office 2007 Enterprise went on x64 edition with no issues or problems. Office updates also ran without issue.Gib
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June 22nd, 2009 9:58pm

Hello WIN7ROOKIE,Have you been able to resolve your question? If so please post the answer so others can see or let us know if you need more help.Thanks,-Scott
June 25th, 2009 11:23pm

I've installed Office 2007 Ultimate on numerous occasions on Windows 7 RC without any issue. Have you by any chance tried openning Windows Explorer and locating the setup applcation and tried installing from that rather than from the auto-run? I'm not saying it will work, but it is worth a try.As for naming your partition D: it doesn't really make much difference what drive letter you give it, so long as it is not in use by another drive/partition (in which case you wouldn't have th eoption to choose that letter). The optical drive will simply take the next available drive letter.John Barnett MVP: Windows XP Associate Expert: Windows Desktop Experience: Web: http://www.winuser.co.uk; Web: http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org; Web: http://vistasupport.mvps.org;
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June 26th, 2009 12:01am

I've installed Office 2007 Ultimate on numerous occasions on Windows 7 RC without any issue. Have you by any chance tried openning Windows Explorer and locating the setup applcation and tried installing from that rather than from the auto-run? I'm not saying it will work, but it is worth a try.As for naming your partition D: it doesn't really make much difference what drive letter you give it, so long as it is not in use by another drive/partition (in which case you wouldn't have th eoption to choose that letter). The optical drive will simply take the next available drive letter. John Barnett MVP: Windows XP Associate Expert: Windows Desktop Experience: Web: http://www.winuser.co.uk; Web: http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org; Web: http://vistasupport.mvps.org; John - I don't know about that... If you have drives C: - F: (internal hard and optical drives) on your system, and a network drive G:, and you plug in a USB stick, Windows will assign drive G: to that USB stick. You have to go into drive managment and reassign the drive letter for that USB stick manually or you can run into problems. This has been Windows default behavior going back to Win 98. You'd think it would be a simple fix - have Windows check to see if the drive letter was already in use and skip to the next available drive letter.
June 26th, 2009 3:07am

Hello WIN7ROOKIE,Have you been able to resolve your question? If so please post the answer so others can see or let us know if you need more help.Thanks, -Scott I was mostly curious... It sounds like it's probably the media... I am just test driving Win7 on a second partition... No absolute need for O2007 on that partition. I installed Open Office in case I am in Win7 partition and need to open an office document.Thank you to all for the feedback... -Win7Rookie
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June 26th, 2009 4:37am

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