disk image is corrupt! download it again and retry. John On Sep 27, 2005, at 2:34 PM, Dr Trevor J. Hutley wrote: > > (If anyone thinks this is off topic, please do not resign from the > List) :-) > > I just ran the update (under 10.4.2) for Office 2004 on my Al-book. > > The installation stopped just before the end, with a stated 16 > files remaining, with the message: > > A disk error occurred while reading from the disk. > Please contact technical support for help. > 1008:22,-36 IO Error (bad Disk) > > I have seen mud that is more transparent. > > Is this referring to the disk image on which the Installer resides, > or my hard disk? > > The outcome of this partially completed update is that ALL my > Office applications have been deleted..... (W, E, P...). > > In the Dock they have all become question marks! > > I restored them from my backup, re-ran the Update and the very same > thing happened. > > Has anyone else seen such behaviour ? Any advice as to what I > might do? > > Could it be a corruption of the Installer during download? > Is it a problem with my (nearly new) Toshiba 80Gb disk? > > regards, Trevor > -- Remember: 'i' before 'e', except in Budweiser