OFF2000: Out of Disk Space Error When Reinstalling Office

When you try to reinstall Microsoft Office 2000, an error message similar to the following appears: This message appears even if you are making no changes to your installation of Office.

This error message appears when the following are both true:

• You ran the Setup program in Maintenance Mode and tried to repair or reinstall Office. -and-
  
  
• You have less than 50 MB of free disk space on your Windows drive.

For the Setup program to continue, check to make sure that you have at least 50 MB of free disk space. If you are running low on disk space, delete any files or folders that you are not using and empty the Recycle bin to create more available disk space. Then re-run Office Setup to reinstall or repair Office.

If you free some disk space and try to repair or reinstall Office, you may receive an alert similar to the following: If you want to continue without rollback, click Ignore. Otherwise, click Cancel, free some more disk space, and re-run Office Setup to reinstall or repair Office.

For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

If you are running Windows 98, you can free disk space by running the Disk Cleanup program included in the System Tools folder.

For additional information about the Disk Cleanup tool, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: For more information about repairing your installation of Office, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: