cd rom drive can not open office cd rom

I have a toshiba satellite 105 laptop computer that I bought in Decenber with
windows XP and I was running office 2003 stuent and teacher edition on it,
but after I installed the vista home premium upgrade as a full installation,
I can not get the CD drive to read the CD rom. I can not even see it with
windows explorer. I was forced to load up an old office 97 cd just to have
word to use, but it is not what I want out of word. Please help me find a
way to get this DVD-Rom/ DVD-Ram drive to read this CD rom so I can use this
software that I purchased to use on this laptop.

--
Blake

So the cd reads all other cd's excepting Office 2003?
If you did an upgrade of the o/s, and Office 2003 was installed prior to the
upgrade, it should still be there.
Theres something you are not telling

"vikingsquid" <vikingsquid@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:F2FD49D5-AF96-484B-8238-FA559D25D103@microsoft.com...
>I have a toshiba satellite 105 laptop computer that I bought in Decenber
>with
> windows XP and I was running office 2003 stuent and teacher edition on it,
> but after I installed the vista home premium upgrade as a full
> installation,
> I can not get the CD drive to read the CD rom. I can not even see it with
> windows explorer. I was forced to load up an old office 97 cd just to
> have
> word to use, but it is not what I want out of word. Please help me find a
> way to get this DVD-Rom/ DVD-Ram drive to read this CD rom so I can use
> this
> software that I purchased to use on this laptop.
>
> --
> Blake

The software is not there, or it is not visible. All other cd roms have
loaded so far. The only other problem I have encountered since I upgraded to
vista is that my Sony DVR mini cam software will not function with vista, and
Sony support has advised me that they will not make a fix for vista.

I downloaded a trial of office 2007 and it works fine, but I really don't
want to pay microsoft for anothder version of office all over again when the
trial period ends.

When I upgraded to vista, the instalation made my old XP OS a searchable
directory, but nothing would launch from it. Office 2003 was there and I
saved all of the files from that directory to vista. After all of my files
were transferedto vista, I did delete that XP directory to free up space on
my hard drive. Perhaps when I did that, office 2003 was also deletd. But I
could nt launch Office 2003 from that directory, because nothing there was
bootable.


--
Blake


"DL" wrote:

> So the cd reads all other cd's excepting Office 2003?
> If you did an upgrade of the o/s, and Office 2003 was installed prior to the
> upgrade, it should still be there.
> Theres something you are not telling
>
> "vikingsquid" <vikingsquid@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:F2FD49D5-AF96-484B-8238-FA559D25D103@microsoft.com...
> >I have a toshiba satellite 105 laptop computer that I bought in Decenber
> >with
> > windows XP and I was running office 2003 stuent and teacher edition on it,
> > but after I installed the vista home premium upgrade as a full
> > installation,
> > I can not get the CD drive to read the CD rom. I can not even see it with
> > windows explorer. I was forced to load up an old office 97 cd just to
> > have
> > word to use, but it is not what I want out of word. Please help me find a
> > way to get this DVD-Rom/ DVD-Ram drive to read this CD rom so I can use
> > this
> > software that I purchased to use on this laptop.
> >
> > --
> > Blake
>
>
>

Not having done the upgrade process I'm commenting in the dark.
I find it a little odd that after an upgrade you have to reinstall your
apps.

What exactly you copied from the winxp o/s folder might have some bearing.

If you currently have Office 2007 trial installed, you should not attempt to
install Office2003

> When I upgraded to vista, the instalation made my old XP OS a searchable
> directory, but nothing would launch from it. Office 2003 was there and I
> saved all of the files from that directory to vista. After all of my
> files
> were transferedto vista, I did delete that XP directory to free up space
> on
> my hard drive. Perhaps when I did that, office 2003 was also deletd. But
> I
> could nt launch Office 2003 from that directory, because nothing there was
> bootable.
>
>
> --
> Blake
>
>
> "DL" wrote:
>
>> So the cd reads all other cd's excepting Office 2003?
>> If you did an upgrade of the o/s, and Office 2003 was installed prior to
>> the
>> upgrade, it should still be there.
>> Theres something you are not telling
>>
>> "vikingsquid" <vikingsquid@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:F2FD49D5-AF96-484B-8238-FA559D25D103@microsoft.com...
>> >I have a toshiba satellite 105 laptop computer that I bought in Decenber
>> >with
>> > windows XP and I was running office 2003 stuent and teacher edition on
>> > it,
>> > but after I installed the vista home premium upgrade as a full
>> > installation,
>> > I can not get the CD drive to read the CD rom. I can not even see it
>> > with
>> > windows explorer. I was forced to load up an old office 97 cd just to
>> > have
>> > word to use, but it is not what I want out of word. Please help me
>> > find a
>> > way to get this DVD-Rom/ DVD-Ram drive to read this CD rom so I can use
>> > this
>> > software that I purchased to use on this laptop.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Blake
>>
>>
>>