Can't install MS Office 13. Error Code 1603.

Ian Eden

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Hello everyone, this is my 1st post.

I have had Office 13 working on my system before. And when I ran a chkdsk, Office apps started not to work. I tried repairing them with the Office CD but that didn't help. Then, I uninstalled it and tried to re install it again but all I keep getting is that "Setup encountered a problem during installation." I check the log files and all I can see is that the error code is 1603. That error code is too generic and I already tried a lot of solutions found on the internet. What I inferred from the logs is that the error is generated after "CA install license". To be exact this is what I found in the log files:
2014/10/15 07:49:00:331::[6348] MSI(ACTIONSTART): 'Action 7:49:00: CAInstallLicenses. '
2014/10/15 07:49:00:676::[6348] MSI(INFO): 'CustomAction CAInstallLicenses returned actual error code 1603 (note this may not be 100% accurate if translation happened inside sandbox)'
2014/10/15 07:49:00:741::[6348] MSI(INFO): '10/15/2014 07:49:00.740 [5592]: Assembly Install: Failing with hr=80070005 at RemoveDirectoryAndChildren, line 396
'
2014/10/15 07:49:00:742::[6348] MSI(INFO): '10/15/2014 07:49:00.742 [5592]: Detailed info about C:\WINDOWS\assembly\tmp\TMH7Y4DM\OFFICE.DLL
'

Somebody please help me to solve this ! And thanks in advance.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
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