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How do I clear an ActiveX Runtime Error 429 on NT workstation install.exe

I am in the process of rebuilding a HMI from Siemens which had the hard drive corrupted.  I have managed to rebuild it on a new hard drive using Clonezilla and have successfully rebuilt a working NT environment.  I am trying to use the existing machine software and keep getting problems.  I suspect it is due to the cloning that did not import the registry.  I have made changes to the registry that have helped get rid of some problems, but I am at the point where I think just reinstalling the machine software would fix the problems.  The main issue is that when I click on any of the 5 machine install programs I just get the ACTIVEX Runtime 429 error, cannot create object.  Preliminary investigations suggest something to do with MDAC or ODBC, but my exposure to both of these is pretty much non existent.  Oh and did I mention that the cd drive does not work so installing any new apps is limited to a floppy drive !! Unless someone has a great way of getting NT 4.0 to recognise USB stick drives.

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I do not get that error on my NT4 Virtual Machine, so I cannot replicate it.

The Microsoft Support article below implicates Microsoft Office.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828550

Can you try uninstalling and reinstalling Office if you have Office installed.

I wonder (from your first) whether you cloned the corruption and brought it forward to the new machine.
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No Office installed.  The Cloning ignored the bad sectors and NT booted up pretty easily after I moved the new hard drive to the workstation PC.  There is no other software installed on the system except WINT NT and the machine software, which included siemens S7.

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Thanks for the update about Office.

Are you at Service Pack 6a?  Are you missing updates?  No chance now to update so far as I know.

I still think the most likely reason is something in the clone went wrong.
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I am pretty sure you are correct.  To be honest, I got to the stage yesterday where I spent a couple of hours repairing the CD rom drive.  With that working, I just wiped the whole drive reformatted it, loaded up win NT as a clean install followed by unto SP6 and everything is now fine.  I don't have the error.  So I think this is worth noting as a CLONING DOWNFALL !

Thanks for your help
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As I think we both did, me in my original question and you in your email, but I understand your meaning and am happy to accept this as the solution, thanks again for your help
@sltech8  - You are very welcome and I was pleased to work with you.