Installing Office when I only have a single partition

I purchased office 2000 a long time ago for my desktop. I had it installed on
my laptop as well but the drive on my laptop died recently. After I replaced
it, the repair shop reinstalled XP but only created a single partition, i.e.
C drive only. When I tried to install office, it complains it can't read
something from drive D. Is there a way to have office put everything on C. I
hate to have to re-install just to create a D drive. Or can I rename my C
drive to D and perform the install, then rename it back to C. Are the files
it create on the D drive needed for normal operation or are those temporary
files?

--
Liz

If your installation only has a single HD/Partition then the D drive would
usually be your cd drive

'Cannot read something' the *exact err msg* is required.

"lvck" <lvck@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I purchased office 2000 a long time ago for my desktop. I had it installed
>on
> my laptop as well but the drive on my laptop died recently. After I
> replaced
> it, the repair shop reinstalled XP but only created a single partition,
> i.e.
> C drive only. When I tried to install office, it complains it can't read
> something from drive D. Is there a way to have office put everything on C.
> I
> hate to have to re-install just to create a D drive. Or can I rename my C
> drive to D and perform the install, then rename it back to C. Are the
> files
> it create on the D drive needed for normal operation or are those
> temporary
> files?
>
> --
> Liz