XPost: microsoft.public.sqlserver.programming   
   From: genew@ocis.net   
      
   Dear SQLers:   
      
        I have two systems: an XP system which is my main system and a   
   Windows 7 system which is for development.  The latter is a   
   sacrificial goat which might get sacrificed yet and rebuilt.   
      
        Microsoft makes it rather difficult to tell which versions of SQL   
   Server 2008 Express one needs.  They have many versions ranging from   
   just under 100 MB to just under 1 GB.  I have downloaded several   
   gigabytes of them.   
      
        I download them to my XP system.  Anything that I want on my 7   
   system, I copy to a memory stick and from there to the 7 system.   
      
        It does not always work!  I have gotten messages about corrupt   
   SQL Server installation files.  This does not happen often, and there   
   is not much corruption.  It is an occasional few (usually four) bytes   
   in a sector.  This behaviour seems to happen only with large files.   
      
        From now on, I will be checking both copy results.  If you are   
   having any weirdness in your installs, this might be part of it.   
      
        Between the above and installation programs that throw exceptions   
   or just plain die, SQL Server Express is a rather challenging program   
   to install.  Oh, I forgot about how my XP system got hosed a while   
   back by SSE installation and I had to have Windows reloaded.  That,   
   too.   
      
   Sincerely,   
      
   Gene Wirchenko   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)