Hi everyone, nice to have the old place back (even if it doesn't work the way we want it ;))
Anyway, I'm trying to install 2k eval as a named instance on our dev box (NT4 sp6), we already have SQL7 installed and I need to keep that intact for the time being. Problem is, I can't get past the 'Installing MDAC' message - it keeps bombing out with 'Error installing MDAC components (-1)', which sounds rather like a GPF style error message i.e. devoid of useful meaning. Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions on this?

Cheers,

Chris

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Have you tried installing the MDAC separately? (either off the installation CD, or by downloading the latest MDAC from http://www.microsoft.com/data/)?

Cheers
Ken

Thanks, that did the trick - eventually. I had to trash a couple of bits of the registry before I could do anything :) Apparently, windoze leaves entries indicating install errors for MDAC, so if you try to reinstall, it's a good idea to delete the keys here first:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Setup\Exception Components