Unable to uninstall default instance!!!

  • Hi,

    We have default instance of sql server 2005 (Non clustered) and 3 failover cluster instances. Now I would like to uninstall Non clustered default instance and then install clustered named instance.

    But Iam unable to uninstall the default instance from Add/Remove programs.Here I choose the default instance to uninstall, the wizard comes up stays for a min and disappears but it not uninstalling the default instance.

    Please advice me

  • you have a cluster with a nonclustered instance on one node and 3 instances on the cluster?

  • yes...

  • when you install clustered instances it still installs files to the local c drives of each node. my guess is the clustered installs overwrote that and this is why you can't uninstall it

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