sql installation hanging

Sorry about the panic. I think it's sorted now, but I'll explain anyway.

It turned out that my firewall had taken exception to something although it's logs do not elaborate as to what it was. The two hours, or so, of the installation hanging was evident from it's log, however. I did indeed have to end the application. After this there were only 2 MSSQL items in my Add/Remove Programs. I removed them and tried to reinstall it again via Visual Web download. But, although it seemed to have installed ok, most of it was in a weired directory, not the SQL Server one in Program Files...

So I removed the (now) 4 MSSQL items in Add/Remove, deleted the spurious directory (leaving it intact in the Recycle Bin), cleared %temp%, and moved everything under the 'proper' SQL Server directory to somewhere else, renaming the top part of this new tree - just in case. Finally, I searched the registry and found no relevant references to "MSSQL"; and I rebooted. Then I realised that in the 24 hours I had originally spent downloading all this stuff, I had also got the SQL Server as a 'download, install later' file. Marvellous! (very slow broadband, you see.) So, I executed that, and now, I think it has all successfully installed - and to the right directory.

So I'm ok now - at least as far as installation goes. It's a shame that Microsoft didn't include the same download option for the other VS Express editions.

Anyway, thank you very much for your reply, and for reading this waffle.

Jess

jessj at 2007-9-8 >