RE: How to repair MDAC in XP SP2?

From: Kevin Yu [MSFT] (v-kevy_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/27/04


Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 06:17:28 GMT

Hi,

First of all, I would like to confirm my understanding of your issue. From
your description, I understand that you were unable to install MDAC 2.8 RTM
on an windows xp sp2 machine. If there is any misunderstanding, please feel
free to let me know.

Based on my research, this is a known issue. Since Windows XP sp2 contains
a newer version of MDAC, re-installing 2.8 seems to be downgrading. So it
is by design to prevent users from installing MDAC 2.8 RTM on a sp2
machine. Currently we have no better workarounds.

HTH.

Kevin Yu
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