Trouble installing MS office

[MJ]

Hi, hope you can help!

On my system running '98, I am trying to reinstall Office 97 (and then upgrade to 2000). I am a licensed user. When I install the original '97 disk, I get an error message: "configuration of the ODBC MS dbase driver failed"; consequently setup was not executed properly. I then tried uninstalling the program through the add/remove programs tool and tried to install again. Same error message came up.

I aniticpate that the problem is in the registry somewhere, right? Here's the low-down... just prior to this re-installation attempt, I had to restore my system files on this (somewhat) old system. I did not, however, uninstall Office prior to doing so. Again, I assume this has something to do with the error I am receiving. Can anyone help? PLEASE! I really need to get this system loaded properly. Any advice or assistance is most appreciated.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi M.J.,

It can be an issue with MS Data Access file version
incompatabilities or corruption. You may want to try
method 3 first in
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;197365&FR=1

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Hi, hope you can help!

On my system running '98, I am trying to reinstall Office 97 (and then upgrade to 2000). I am a licensed user. When I install the
original '97 disk, I get an error message: "configuration of the ODBC MS dbase driver failed"; consequently setup was not executed
properly. I then tried uninstalling the program through the add/remove programs tool and tried to install again. Same error
message came up.

I aniticpate that the problem is in the registry somewhere, right? Here's the low-down... just prior to this re-installation
attempt, I had to restore my system files on this (somewhat) old system. I did not, however, uninstall Office prior to doing so.
Again, I assume this has something to do with the error I am receiving. Can anyone help? PLEASE! I really need to get this system
loaded properly. Any advice or assistance is most appreciated. ?? >>
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Hope that helps,

Bob Buckland ? MS Office Products family MVP
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