Re: Damaged ODBC Drivers

From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 02/12/05


Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:35:47 -0800

Ken Gash wrote:

> I have received error messages stating that my ODBC drivers may be
> damaged. I am running WIN XP Home, SP2 on a brand new machine, and
> the instructions I have found to fix this problem involves
> uninstalling SP2
> and reinstalling it. This seems like a rather severe solution,
> especially when the computer I have did not come with diske, merely a
> system restore process.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

When are you getting the error message? What is the exact text? Are you
running a particular program when you get the message? And where did
you find the instructions saying to uninstall SP2?

Malke

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