Can not install programs

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To make long story short... I installed a second hard drive and made it the
master.
About a week later, when I went to install my new Norton software, the
installer window comes up and goes away. Also, I can not get into my 2007
Norton software, on the C or D drive. Office 2003 will not open, it ask for
install/repair.
By the way, when I run Norton Win Dr from the CD, it identifies about 700
errors, most are Active X of medium severity!

Before I try to do a repair option from my OEM Win XP disk, I thought of
another option:

I made a complete copy of my hard drive to an external HD before adding the
second HD? If I do a full restore from my back up (this will take about 9
hours), would/should that work?

Or... since my D drive is pretty much a mirror of my new C drive, (I have
not cleaned it out yet) can I copy/transfer my D back to the C and
hopefully, everything will be same? Thank you.

Scott

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Dell Deminsion 8250
Win XP Home SP2

Inspiron 9000
Win XP Media SP2
 
It all depends how you went about configuring the master, & the software
that was on the origonal HD

Again it depends what you mean by full copy to the external

I would forget about Norton untill you sort out the other problems, Norton
will only complicate matters

No you cannot simply copy / transfer

You need to state how *exactly* & with what you transfered files from
origonal C to new drive

In retrospect; if your origonal C is intact and you havent meddled with any
of its files then I would consider reinstateing this as master, disconnect
your new drive, reboot, ensure everything is functioning, shutdown, connect
the new drive as slave, then use the utility provided by the hd manufacturer
to copy C to the new HD, once completed, shutdown the PC, disconnect C,
configure new HD as master, re boot & check all is functioning before,
shutting down & reconecting the origonal C as slave. (ensure any usb/media
reader drives are disconnected during the whole process)

A simple copy, if thats what you did is not a backup of the sys.
 
Thanks. You answer about reinstating the original C drive and going from
there probably makes the most sense. By the way, I used Western Digitals's
copy software that came with the new harddrive to copy the original.

And it's not just the Norton software that will not install, it's most things
--
Dell Deminsion 8250
Win XP Home SP2

Inspiron 9000
Win XP Media SP2
 
After transfering you did immediately shutdown before rebooting with only
the new hd connected as master?
 
I can't install a .exe file I downloaded. I get a message
Can't install .exe files [ C:\Documents and Settings\Shoe
Family\Desktop\JigsawBeachHoliday Install.exe is not a valid Win32
application.
I don't know what to do to get this to install. I can't get anything to
install. What can be the problem.

Please help with this one.
 
tigress said:
I can't install a .exe file I downloaded. I get a message
Can't install .exe files [ C:\Documents and Settings\Shoe
Family\Desktop\JigsawBeachHoliday Install.exe is not a valid Win32
application.
I don't know what to do to get this to install. I can't get anything to
install. What can be the problem.

Please help with this one.
Click to expand...
First off bozo, this is the second thread I've seen that you've hijacked
to ask your question. To properly post a question to a newsgroup you
start your own thread with your own subject line. That way the original
poster of the thread you hijacked doesn't get confused by people trying
to answer two different peoples questions in that thread.

You probably just have a corrupt install file, re-download it from
wherever you got it from and try again. You can run other .exe files on
your computer I'm assuming since you're using a program to post to the
newsgroups. Corrupt files happen once in a while, it's just a fact of life.

Later, Ray Parrish
 
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