cd rom drive can not open office cd rom

[vikingsquid]

I have a toshiba satellite 105 laptop computer that I bought in Decenber with
windows XP and I was running office 2003 stuent and teacher edition on it,
but after I installed the vista home premium upgrade as a full installation,
I can not get the CD drive to read the CD rom. I can not even see it with
windows explorer. I was forced to load up an old office 97 cd just to have
word to use, but it is not what I want out of word. Please help me find a
way to get this DVD-Rom/ DVD-Ram drive to read this CD rom so I can use this
software that I purchased to use on this laptop.

 

[DL]

So the cd reads all other cd's excepting Office 2003?
If you did an upgrade of the o/s, and Office 2003 was installed prior to the
upgrade, it should still be there.
Theres something you are not telling

 

[vikingsquid]

The software is not there, or it is not visible. All other cd roms have
loaded so far. The only other problem I have encountered since I upgraded to
vista is that my Sony DVR mini cam software will not function with vista, and
Sony support has advised me that they will not make a fix for vista.

I downloaded a trial of office 2007 and it works fine, but I really don't
want to pay microsoft for anothder version of office all over again when the
trial period ends.

When I upgraded to vista, the instalation made my old XP OS a searchable
directory, but nothing would launch from it. Office 2003 was there and I
saved all of the files from that directory to vista. After all of my files
were transferedto vista, I did delete that XP directory to free up space on
my hard drive. Perhaps when I did that, office 2003 was also deletd. But I
could nt launch Office 2003 from that directory, because nothing there was
bootable.

 

[DL]

Not having done the upgrade process I'm commenting in the dark.
I find it a little odd that after an upgrade you have to reinstall your
apps.

What exactly you copied from the winxp o/s folder might have some bearing.

If you currently have Office 2007 trial installed, you should not attempt to
install Office2003