win xp, evidence eliminator...ooops

[Jasle]

win xp, evidence eliminator...ooops/help

OK I upgraded to win xp a while ago. Also installed office pro with frontpage. the old version of win 98 did not get deleted and was still on my harddrive only now I don't have a dos emulator to go in and delete it. So I was told evidence eliminator will delete all hidden files even my old win 98 to free up hard drive space. so I ran it. now I am missing a file called proplus.msi I cannot run any office applications. I just moved and found my win xp disk but not my frigging office xp pro disk...

Any way to fix this without my disk? I need my office stuff right away. The programs are there...it opens the files so I can see them but then says installing feature and won't let me do squat. ARGH!

AND win 98 is still hidden on the hard drive! I guess I should upgrade from the 4.3G but until then I'm hosed.

Help!!!

 

[JWW]

Try searching the net for the file and placing it in the folder.

 

[Zerotact]

Actually, you should search for that file on the install cd's of office XP.
Upgrading a machine is an excelent way to hose an otherwise perfectly good machine.

 

[Jasle]

the problem is I cannot find my office xp disk. its mia in a box from our move. I really wanted frontpage xp which I do like a lot. or should I say did until I hosed it up trying to get more disk space....I will search for the file though. Thanks

 

[Jasle]

well a quick scan of the net provided some very usefull info. This is a very common problem. it seems this and a few other needed files are stored in a temp directory. since the hard drive cleaner programs clear that folder your computer now thinks it does not have office loaded. microsoft actually has a patch you can download but you still need you cd...guess I'm going to be trolling through boxes looking for this cd all day...