Francisco H Tapia
my.lists at verizon.net
Wed Aug 11 14:48:55 CDT 2004
Arthur Fuller wrote On 8/11/2004 12:13 PM: >I have asked this before in several lists but so far received no useful >response, so I'll try again. Can anyone provide a recipe that is >guaranteed to blow away all traces of MS-SQL on my development machine? > >Everything used to work fine, by which I mean the server, EM, QA, Yukon >beta, etc. Then something happened, no idea what, and now nothing works. >I can't uninstall successfully, I can't re-install... Nada! I even >booted safe and renamed the directory, then reinstalled and even that >didn't work. > >Fortunately I have other boxes that I can use, and of course all the >data is backed up safely (and now resides on said server), but that's >not the issue. I want to blow away every trace of SQL on this box and >then successfully re-install. Any suggestions, short of a complete >reformat? > >TIA, >Arthur > > Recently I was messing around w/ my home pc and installed a hefty 250gb 8mb cache drive. It is ideal for video captuer off my Sony DV camera. In the process I re-organized drives for better cooling and also messed around w/ the registry. lo and behold I blew up my system registry hive by my actions :) and I didn't even use a backup before I started :D, way to live dangerously. I brought back my system hive from an old backup but that had obscure traces of a previous sql 7 install and some other junk. I downloaded registry mechanic an that cleaned up the raw traces in the registry, but there were still issues w/ files which were available on the system but the registry recognized incorrectly due to the old re-store. I downloaded this little utility file "TARS.CMD" from Michael Espinola's personal website, it toggles off all services on your pc. You can then try and re-install of Sql Server 2000 + SP3 and get your windows system working again like new. I had to do this to get my pc from SP2 to SP4 again and reload SQL Server 2000 develpoer w/ SP3a :) so much for fudging the registry :D hope this solution works for ya btw, I have a copy of the TARS.cmd file if you want it, contact me off the list. -- -Francisco