I've been moving toward doing a large project using VS 2005 as opposed to VS.NET 2003. This project requires both VS 2005 Beta, and SQL Server 2005 Beta for "Reporting Services". I'm having problems, after installing VS 2005 beta and SQL Server 2005 beta, uninstalling everything; specifically the MSDN Library. Here's what I have:

+ Windows XP w/SP2 (fresh install) on a 10GB "C" partition
+ About 10 typical windows programs (office, etc) on a 25GB "D" partition
+ a 3rd party dbms on a 25GB "E" partition

I first installed VS 2005 Beta 1 (by mistake) then followed the uninstall procedures outlined in numerous other posts. All uninstalled fine, as far as I know. I also used the VS cleanup tool and made sure the \temp file was cleared out. I then installed VS 2005 Beta 2 into the "D" drive. That went smoothly. I then installed SQL Server 2005 Beta 2; the dbms, reporting services, and tools, documentation, and examples. I originally selected one of the other services but [Back]'d up and unselected it, then continued with the install. All seemed to work fine until the installation got to the tools installation, where it failed and rolled back and the following error comes from the Summary.txt file:

"There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Action SqlWbSetup.5F46584E_060D_4BCB_ADEE_BD15A7BFCC2A, location: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Binn\VSShell\Common7\IDE\SqlWb.exe, command: /setup Error number: 1722"

Since the default installation is to the "C" drive I thought maybe there was a problem with the space, as I only have about 5Gb of space available on my 10Gb "C" partition. So, uninstalled SQL Server 2005 Beta 2, following the uninstall documentation, then reinstalled it onto the "D" drive, where I have about 18Gb of free space. The same problem occured; when it got to installing the tools it "rolled back" that part of the installation and gave me the same error as above. Messages I see in the ..._SQL.log are:

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PIDKEY=********** INSTALLSQLDIR=D:\MicrosoftSQLServer2005\ INSTALLSQLDATADIR=D:\MicrosoftSQLServer2005\ INSTANCENAME=MSSQLSERVER SAPWD=********** SQLCOLLATION=SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS SQLAUTOSTART=1 AGTAUTOSTART=1 ERRORREPORTING=1 EXTERNALCONTROL=1 ADDLOCAL=SQL_Engine,SQL_Data_Files,SQL_Replication,SQL_FullText TRANSFORMS=:SqlRun01.mst;:InstID01.mst;:InstName01.mst MSINEWINSTANCE=1 REBOOT=ReallySuppress CURRENTDIRECTORY=C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup Bootstrap CLIENTUILEVEL=3 CLIENTPROCESSID=1820 CURRENTMEDIAVOLUMELABEL=SQLDEV
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Property(S): Collation_DlgTitle = Collation Settings
Property(S): Collation_SQL = &SQL collations (used for compatibility with previous versions of SQL Server)
Property(S): DiskSpace_DlgDesc = Disk space required for the installation exceeds available disk space.
Property(S): DiskSpace_DlgDesc1 = The available disk space and the space required for installation are shown below.
Property(S): DiskSpace_DlgText = The highlighted volumes, if any, do not have enough disk space available for the currently selected features. Click Disk Cleanup to free disk space and then click Resume to continue the installation, or click Exit to exit the wizard.
Property(S): DiskSpace_DlgTitle = Out of Disk Space
Property(S): DiskSpace_DlgTitle1 = Disk Cost
Property(S): DiskSpace_LBDiskCleanup = Use disk cleanup to free more disk space by removing unneeded files.
Property(S): REASON_ADMIN_DISABLED = Administrative shares must be enabled in order to let Setup access remote nodes
Property(S): REASON_DARWIN_VER = Windows installer is not present or has not the required version
Property(S): REASON_DUP_INSTANCE_NAME_CLST = An instance with the same name is already installed in one or more nodes of the cluster.
Property(S): REASON_GROUP_HOSTS_VS = Already contains a SQL Virtual Server
Property(S): REASON_GROUP_NO_DISK = Does not contain any valid cluster disk
Property(S): ERROR_INVALID_PID = This is an invalid Product Key value. Please check the number located on your Product Key sticker.
Property(S): ERROR_INVALID_USERNAME = The Name is required for the installation.
Property(S): REASON_NODE_DOWN = The node is down or unavailable
Property(S): REASON_NOT_KNOWN = Unknown
Property(S): REASON_PENDING_REBOOT = The node must be rebooted before running setup
Property(S): ERROR_UNKNOWN = Installation error. Install it by running setup.exe.
Property(S): REASON_VERSION_ADDNODE = Adding nodes to the Virtual Server definition using a newer version of Setup is not allowed.
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So, I figure why not uninstall everything and try again. :-)

I uninstalled SQL Server Beta 2 and then VS 2005 Beta 2. However, when I tried to uninstall the MSDN Library I watch the uninstall rollback then give me the message dialog box: "Fatal Error during Installation!". Nothing I try seems to work.

How do I clean up this mess and try again? Thanks.