office 2003 install on vista

[confused]

i am trying... for the last 3 hours to install a new version of office 2003
professional on windows vista premium home. every time i load the cd in to
the drive it makes all kinds of noice, acts really slowly and eventially
allows me to "explore" the cd to attempt to run setup.exe. when i finally
get that far, i recieve errors, the most recent being "setup.exe is not a
valid win32 application" after i enter the product keycode. i have disabled
the UAC, i am the administrator anyway, but was having other errors before i
disabled it. the computer is 3 months old, other cd's & dvd's including
program install cds run just fine. please help... i dont know what the
problem is.

 

[ANONYMOUS]

It could be that the Office CD may be damaged and so you won't be able
to do anything unless somebody can copy the exact version you have for
you. Have you tried copying the entire CD on to your hard drive or
flash drive and then installing from it by clicking on the setup.exe file?

M$ has stopped supplying media for Office 2003 so you are in a real mess
unless you can buy the latest version (office 2007) or download from the
crack site (not advisable to christians on new year's eve).. Jesus
never liked people breaking the law!

Hope this helps.

 

[Peter Foldes]

From where did you get the installation CD\DVD from

It sounds like a file read problem. If the dvd was used install on another
machine then there is something about the drive in the second machine that
is not correctly reading from the dvd. The error message was related to
cyclical redundancy errors

 

[Sardine]

Find a different cd drive and try it for installing.

Sard