RE: Error Message When Setup MS SQL Server Developer Edition

Hi Tarik Ibrahim,

I ran in to this problem once (a long time ago).
I my case it was caused by a problem with MDAC.
Try downloading (http://www.microsoft.com/data/) and installing the latest
version of MDAC prior to installing SQL Server.

Ps, as you no doubt know running Windows XP without any service pack is not
a very bright idea. My Experience is that the SQL Server developer edition
should work fine even on Windows XP without any SP’s but please, save
yourself a lot of trouble and patch it.

Kind regards,

Leon Krancher
Avanade

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experience I'm not speaking for my employer and no rights may be derived from
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"Tarik Ibrahim" wrote:

> the following message appear ehn trying to install MS SQL Server Dev Ed
> "A Service Control Operation Failed For The MSSQLServer Service: 267 The
> Directory Name Is Invalid"
> as i use Windows XP os without any SP and running Dotnet Framework 1.0
.

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