Windows 10: MS office 2003 will not start

Discus and support MS office 2003 will not start in Windows 10 Software and Apps to solve the problem; The Bipra USB 2.0 to Sata/IDE Adapter came today and apparently it is telling me that the disk is corrupt and can not be read. I guess this is the end... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Software and Apps' started by Roehrle, May 9, 2016.

  1. Roehrle Win User

    MS office 2003 will not start


    The Bipra USB 2.0 to Sata/IDE Adapter came today and apparently it is telling me that the disk is corrupt and can not be read.
    I guess this is the end of story unless there is some other means of getting the information from the disk that I am not aware of .
    Any suggestions or is it time to move on....*Tongue
     
    Roehrle, May 11, 2016
    #16

  2. Roehrle, I have a hard time believing that the disk wasn't corrupt until you switched to 10. Try a friend's computer and see if you can recover the files.
     
    Vince Massi, May 11, 2016
    #17
  3. simrick Win User
    Have you tried contacting Microsoft about your key as I suggested in Post #7?

    You can try this, if you are able:
    Put the old drive back in the old W7 machine.
    Go download and burn to CD disk, the special rescue media made by a member, Kyhi:
    Windows 10 Recovery Tools - Bootable Rescue Disk - Windows 10 Forums


    Boot your W7 machine to this CD, which is like a little, mini operating system with some tools in it. Once you have booted into the rescue media, open File Explorer and look at your old disk - see if you can read the file names, and copy them over to a flash drive.

    He also has a program on there called RECUVA, which can be used to recover files off a failed hard drive sometimes.
     
    simrick, May 11, 2016
    #18
  4. Roehrle Win User

    MS office 2003 will not start

    Great..I'll give it a try ,Suppose to rain tomorrow so I won't be working on my sailboat.
    Also I gave installing my Office 2003 disk and it ran this time. Don't have time now to explain because I'm trying to get all my racing programs up and running using Xcel
    Thanks again
     
    Roehrle, May 12, 2016
    #19
  5. jimbo45 Win User
    Hi there

    Did you have a look at look at WPS office --runs EXCEL stuff fine -- note it will run complex EXCEL spreadsheets --far better than Libre Office and the pro version will also do VB code too. the Free version though is good enough for most people.

    Here's quite a complex statistcal spreadsheet - these sort of things also work with WPS office.


    MS office 2003 will not start [​IMG]




    Cheers
    jimbo
     
    jimbo45, May 12, 2016
    #20
  6. Roehrle Win User
    Good news. .Actually don't know what I did but I tried to run the adaptor that I bought when some how I got a reply from the win10 program that I had a corrupted disk problem and do I want to correct it. It took a long time but it was able to correct the problem. I'm not sure exactly what I did but I think I have to give credit to win10. I probably could now put the hd drive back in my old computer which I will do sometime, but now it is handy to let it on the adaptor as another place to store or retrieve data.
    Thanks to every body what help me
    The adapter was the following:
    Bipra usb 2.0 to sats/ide adaptor with power adapter $25 from Amazon
     
    Roehrle, May 13, 2016
    #21
  7. simrick Win User
    That's good news Roehrle. It probably ran a chkdsk. If you put that drive back in the old machine and it works, you can install and run Belarc Advisor, get your keycode for Office, and compare it to what you have written down.
     
    simrick, Apr 5, 2018
    #22
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