MSDE

[djwatts]

Hi,

Installed MSDE and an application set up a database automatically

There were problems so I un-installed MSDE and deleted the directory in C:\Program Files\

Now when I re-install MSDE it shows the old database still and produces errors when it can't find the files.

Does anyone know how to do a "Clean" install or to totally remove all of the previous settings??? Is it something in the Registry???

Thanks for your help

 

[mrdenny]

All the databases are stored within the master database not the registry. SQL (and MSDE) doesn't store to much in the registry.

If when you reinstalled it picked up the old master database because it wasn't in the c:\Program Files folder it may have used it.

Denny
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[djwatts]

Hi,

So what I did was,

Uninstall MSDE
Delete C:\Program Files\MSDE (or whatever it was called)
Reinstalled MSDE

And it still picks up the database. Is this master database located somewhere else???

Thanks for your help

 

[NortonES2]

search for a file called master.mdf

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