December 12, 2001 at 2:48 pm
I am currently having a problem with uninstalling a default instance of MSDE 2000 after applying SP2. When I go to add/remove programs and select to uninstall I am getting the message 'Instance name specified is invalid'. Has anyone else seen this problem? Can anyone give any pointers as to what might be causing this?
Many Thanks. Andy.
December 21, 2001 at 8:10 am
Hi Andy,
I'm having the same problem (after having big problems with the install in the first place!).
I've found that if I go into the registry and remove all of the references related to SQL Server under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft the uninstall would work.
A word of caution though: I had the luxury of working with this problem on a test box that I can scrap if something unforseen happens. I wouldn't want to attempt it on a production system, just in case the registry editing has consequences that I'm not seeing. This was sort of a last ditch effort on my part that happened to work out :^)
I'm still looking at the problem, and if I learn anything new I'll post it.
Thanks
Bob
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