Arrg! Office XP CD Snapped!!!

[darrent]

Guys,

Just bought a new computer (no software as I have it all). Came to install Office XP Pro onto the new machine and found that the CD is snapped clean in two!!!! Any ideas how I can get a replacement from Mircosoft? I bought it at a computer fair so no chance of taking it back!!!! I still have the receipt and serial number, and of course a CD in two bits!

[miniman]

AFAIK the licence number for XP is not tied to the specific CD.

That being the case, I will gladly make a copy of a CD and send it to you (unless there is some kind of copy protection, which I doubt)

HTH

[darrent]

Miniman,

If you have a copy of XP PRO that you could send over that would be great. Would save me time messing about trying to get a copy from Microsoft. Please email me through my profile if you have time to do this.

Cheers
Darren

[dave_s13]

Can you copy XP though?? Doesn't it need to be registered over the phone or internet to be activated??.

Or am I thinking of office XP????

Anyway you can get hold of a cracked copy of XP (and various other delights) form here

www.pir8forums.com

Its well worth registering if your into films/games.

[miniman]

YHM

[Agent006]

As a more long term idea. If you send the two bits of the CD to microsoft, i would imagine they'd replace it for you.

[trefor]

Do yourself a favour and install an older version of Office!

T/.

[FourWheelDrift]

trefor said: Do yourself a favour and install an older version of Office!

T/.

totally agree Office XP falls over more times than I do on a Saturday night.

Should be renamed MS Office Patch.

Office 2000 seems pretty bulletproof for a Gates product.

[kevinday]

FourWheelDrift said:
Office 2000 seems pretty bulletproof for a Gates product.

Until you import jpg pictures into a Visio diagram and then import that into Word. Weird result is a jpg picture that is cut in half vertically and the left half put into the right side and the right side put into the left side!

[darrent]

Not too bothered about XP or 2000 - just need to get my bloody MS Access 2002 (or 2000) up and running again!!!!!