Having Big Problem with XP

[chris]

Hi, I hope you can help me, nobody else seems to be able to figure this out.
I recently

purchased a used HP Pavilion notebook that has XP as the oper. sys. and also
came with Corel

WordPerfect Office 2000. I don't like Corel and I have been trying without
any success to

install MS Office 2000. Everytime it starts to install, within 1 minute I
always get an

error message saying: "Error 1305, Error reading from file:

D:\PFiles\MSOffice\Office\OUACTRL.OCX. Verify that the file exists and that
you can access

it." This is a new error message that just appeared today. Previously I
would get a similar

message except the file is gave an error for was WINWORD8.DOC.
I really believe that this has to do with Windows XP because I have no
problem installing

the exact same Office disk on my previous laptop, which had Windows 98SE
installed. I never

get a message when installing it on 98.
It's not my cd-rom drive because I have not only used the internal drive
but also an

external cd-rom drive.
Any ideas?
Thank You

Chris

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

"Error reading from file" error message when you try to install programs on a computer
that is running Windows 2000 or Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;824894&Product=Off2kset

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx

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| Hi, I hope you can help me, nobody else seems to be able to figure this out.
| I recently
|
| purchased a used HP Pavilion notebook that has XP as the oper. sys. and also
| came with Corel
|
| WordPerfect Office 2000. I don't like Corel and I have been trying without
| any success to
|
| install MS Office 2000. Everytime it starts to install, within 1 minute I
| always get an
|
| error message saying: "Error 1305, Error reading from file:
|
| D:\PFiles\MSOffice\Office\OUACTRL.OCX. Verify that the file exists and that
| you can access
|
| it." This is a new error message that just appeared today. Previously I
| would get a similar
|
| message except the file is gave an error for was WINWORD8.DOC.
| I really believe that this has to do with Windows XP because I have no
| problem installing
|
| the exact same Office disk on my previous laptop, which had Windows 98SE
| installed. I never
|
| get a message when installing it on 98.
| It's not my cd-rom drive because I have not only used the internal drive
| but also an
|
| external cd-rom drive.
| Any ideas?
| Thank You
|
| Chris