Install Office 95 witihout floppy drive ????

[Robert]

Just got a new laptop, naturally they do not have 3.5 inch floppy drives.
I want to install my Office 2000 Profesional onto it (formely on my other
laptop).
However it started out a Office 95 from 3.5 floppy disk, thus I cannot
install the original in order to run the 97 & 2000 Upgrades.

What do I do?
Please advise - Thanks

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Buy an external floppy drive.

 

[LVTravel]

You do know, hopefully, that you don't have to install the
Office 95 program first and then upgrade to 97 then upgrade
to 2000. When you start the Office 2000 program's install,
it will say that it can't find a qualifying product, at that
time try the Office 97 upgrade CD when it tells you to put
in the qualifying media and then point the install program
to the CD drive if it is not already pointing there. Not
sure this will work but if it works, you won't have to use
the 95 disks for qualifying.

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[John Jay Smith]

you can use a program to create images of the floppys on a computer that has
a floppy drive, and transfer them to the laptop via network or cd.
Then mount them with another program to do the install. Here are the
programs:

WinImage 8 http://www.winimage.com/download.htm
and from the winimage download and help file you will find the small driver
to
mount the images as a normal floppy drive.. here is the info from the
winimage 8 help file ::::

When running on Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server, WinImage
can collaborate with the FileDisk driver to mount disk images. FileDisk is a
virtual disk driver for Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server that uses one or more
uncompressed images files to emulate physical disks. FileDisk can mount
uncompressed FAT images (.IMA images of floppy, removable disk or hard disk
partition) or ISO CD-ROM/DVD images.


FileDisk is a free software build by Bo Branten, who has nicely agreed to
the distribution and integration of the FileDisk driver with WinImage.
Thanks Bo!

To manually install FileDisk drivers, you need:
- Copy the driver (filedisk.sys) to %systemroot%\system32\drivers\.
- Optionally edit filedisk.reg for automatic/manually start and number of
devices.
- Import filedisk.reg to the Registry.
- Reboot.

These website contain more information about FileDisk :
http://www.insidewindows.info, the original site from Bo Branten.
http://www.winimage.com/filedisk.htm

These sites also provide a link to a console application that enables you to
use FileDisk without WinImage.

 

[John Jay Smith]

also see this freeware
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/Floopy.shtml

 

[Beth Melton]

Actually, all that needs to be done is to create a folder on a CD for
each floppy, each folder name needs to be identical to the floppy
label, (not the paper label on the floppy) and copy the files from
each floppy into its respective folder. Then run Setup off of disk
one. If the folder names are correct the installation shouldn't prompt
for each disk.

Note to find the disk label for the floppy, once the floppy is
inserted, right-click the floppy drive and select Properties. It
should appear on the General tab. IIRC, the names should be Disk1,
Disk2, etc.

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assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

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Microsoft Office MVP

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[John Jay Smith]

oh yes... you are right... i have seen this but forgot about it... its been
years!!!

thanks for this reminder

 

[Beth Melton]

Heh, it's been years for me too but the memories of inserting around
30 floppy disks to install Office on several computer labs still
haunts me! It was after the 5th workstation that I decided there *had*
to be a better way and finally figured out I could create the folders
on the server instead of using the floppies. What a relief *that* was!

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

I remember loading AutoCAD from floppies - it was over 40 floppies. Talk
about a long afternoon of not getting anything done!

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]