XPost: microsoft.public.sqlserver.programming, alt.windows7.general   
   From: none@none.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:20:51 -0700, Gene Wirchenko    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:10:54 -0400, Big Steel   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>On 4/18/2012 5:54 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>I would say flatten the HD, install the O/S and install SQL Server. You   
   >>probably did something that's unrecoverable, keeping it simple.   
   >   
   >     Well, having already managed to toast an XP system so that SQL   
   >Server could not be reinstalled, that is certainly credible.   
   >   
   >     I wish I knew what it was that I did.   
   >   
   >     I am trying YA installation with YA version of SSE2008 -- there   
   >are too many of them -- and maybe, it will work.  If not, I suppose I   
   >will nuke it tomorrow.   
      
   What's the status of your backups?   
      
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