2nd load of Office 2003: Student and Teacher Edition

[J R Bauman]

My computer was on the fritz so I re-formatted everything and went back to
factory default. When I tried re-installing Office, which I paid a good
chunk of money for, the CD was now blank. Is there a reason for this?

 

[Bob I]

The CD is BLANK?????? manufactured cd's don't "become blank", I think
you need to re-evaluate the condition of the PC and the CD drive. Unless
the cd is not a manufactured one, in which case you may want to look here.
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/howtotell/en/prepurchase.mspx

 

[J R Bauman]

Yeah, I feel like an ass... I think my CD drive is slowly going out on me...
I got it to work by ejecting the CD and then closing it again. It decided it
wanted to work at that point.

 

[Bob I]

If the drive is inconsistent about reading "pressed" CD's, you could try
blowing the dust out of it. Otherwise, replacing it is not really too
expensive.