Re: Install issue w/MSDE2000 on XP Pro U/G

From: Andrea Montanari (andrea.sqlDMO_at_virgilio.it)
Date: 09/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 17:51:43 +0200

hi Tim,
"Tim Davis" <tdavis@ats-computers.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:0b3401c49cc7$691475b0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> I have just recently upgraded a system from 98SE to XP
> Pro. In doing so the MSDE2000 stopped functioning. I
> ran a full uninstall and then tried a reinstall. That
> didn't work. Found several KB articles on manually
> uninstalling MSDE2000 and I still can't get it to work.
> I have have checked that the server service is running,
> I've cleaned the temp folder, removed old registry keys,
> everything. When I run the install it gets almost to the
> end and then rolls backwards, without giving any errors.
> I don't want to have to reload the system. Any help on
> this matter would be greatly appreciated.

please add the
/L*v "c:\MsdeLog.txt"
parameter to your command line parameter list..
this will instruct MSDE setup to produce a verbose log text file, about 2mb,
where you can search for
RETURN VALUE 3
conditions, which will elaborate the fail causes, in order to help
troubleshouting 

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