[Chuck Davis]

Hi folks,

Windows XP Pro with Word 2000 Premium
Replaced the hard drive. Old one still worked, but at 16GB was too small.
Used the Maxtor program that came with the new drive to move all across.
Office 2000 Premium apparently lost one of the previous update files and now
it can't be fixed with the Detect & Repair or uninstalled.

"This patch package could not be opened. Verify that the patch package
exists and that you can access it, or contact the application vendor to
verify that this is a valid Windows Installer patch package."


Any ideas?

[Mary Sauer]

You receive the "This patch package could not be opened" error message in an
Office program
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/295823/en-us

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Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
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http://msauer.mvps.org/
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http://officebeta.iponet.net/en-us/p...649111033.aspx

"Chuck Davis" newsgroup at anthemwebs dot com wrote in message
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Hi folks,

Windows XP Pro with Word 2000 Premium
Replaced the hard drive. Old one still worked, but at 16GB was too small.
Used the Maxtor program that came with the new drive to move all across.
Office 2000 Premium apparently lost one of the previous update files and now
it can't be fixed with the Detect & Repair or uninstalled.

"This patch package could not be opened. Verify that the patch package exists
and that you can access it, or contact the application vendor to verify that
this is a valid Windows Installer patch package."


Any ideas?