SQL Server CTP won't install as Express is there, but Bld Uninstall Wiz won't remove it...
What to do? After 2 days trying (with only increasing frustration) to get SQL Server working on Net Server 2003 SP1, I'll try it on my dev box: XP Pro SP2.
I've installed Visual Studio June CTP on my dev box, so guess that SQL Express is on it. Express Manager isn't installed apparently, so I can't just use that.
So now when I try to install SQL 2005 CTP, it displays a dialog that old bits need to be uninstalled first. Add-Remove Programs dialog show Visual Studio Beta 2 but not SQL Express or any other SQL. So I run Bld Uninstall Wizard that displays the following dialog
I continue, but then it says it is done:
But SQL CTP still won't run, giving the same old error. Any suggestions? How to forceably remove SQL Express, or do I have to remove all of Visual Studio too?
Sorry if this has been covered before but I don't see it.
Oh, I forgot to mention that the Windows Install Clean Up Tool doesn't show any stray SQL bits either.
I reverted to trying a SQL Express reinstall and get the following error:
[07/13/05,22:03:19] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition April CTP x86 is not installed. ?***EndOfSession***[07/20/05,21:11:33] Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition April CTP x86: [2] Error code 1603 for this component means "Fatal error during installation. " [07/20/05,21:11:35] Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition April CTP x86: [2] Setup Failed on component Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition April CTP x86 ***EndOfSession***
So is there a way to force uninstall of the partial SQL Express install?
I have exactly the same problem. An endless frustrating loop between uninstalling .Net framework , then running the cleanup wizard, running SQL installer , getting the error and then back to the start again. Im on my third day of frustrations now.
yes my problem sounds very simular too i have tried every list of uninstall options I have found on this site, nor is there any trace of SQL in the register, the build cleanup shows it on the hardrive (apparently) though no trace of it except perhaps spbbc(which will not uninstall properly, nor am I sure what it's a component of), in any case after the cleanup wizard says that there is no trace of it on my computer- which there isnt(nor netframework 2.0)no studio programs no sdk's, the installer still says that it's on there.
