{"id":61,"date":"2007-08-08T22:06:08","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T03:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericgharrison.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/08\/ever-had-a-truly-busted-sql-server-2000-install"},"modified":"2007-08-08T22:06:08","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T03:06:08","slug":"ever-had-a-truly-busted-sql-server-2000-install","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Ever had a truly busted SQL Server 2000 install?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"msgcns!E4092A968B7C1A54!255\" class=\"bvMsg\">\n<div>Recently, while installing CRM on a client&#8217;s server, we discovered a &quot;broken&quot;\u00a0SQL Server installation.\u00a0\u00a0Enterprise Manager wouldn&#8217;t run,\u00a0and certain SQL Services were no longer working.\u00a0 In order to clear this up, I tried to do an uninstall and reinstall of SQL Server.\u00a0 Unfortunately, during the uninstall, it errored out.\u00a0 So I was left with a SQL Server install that wouldn&#8217;t uninstall, and wouldn&#8217;t run.\u00a0 In trying to reinstall it, it would not allow an installation\u00a0as the default instance.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Fortunately, Microsoft has a document on how to repair a disaster of this level.\u00a0 Take a looksee at <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/290991\">http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/290991<\/a>\u00a0and follow the instructions very carefully.\u00a0 After doing all those things, you too can have a working SQL Server 2000 installation.\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, while installing CRM on a client&#8217;s server, we discovered a &quot;broken&quot;\u00a0SQL Server installation.\u00a0\u00a0Enterprise Manager wouldn&#8217;t run,\u00a0and certain SQL Services were no longer working.\u00a0 In order to clear this up, I tried to do an uninstall and reinstall of SQL Server.\u00a0 Unfortunately, during the uninstall, it errored out.\u00a0 So I was left with a SQL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}