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After digging around and reviewing user connections I found a SPID that had over 30 suspended connections to the server. Since this is highly unusual in my environment, I...

Whatever account the sqlserver agent is using at minimum will need Read permissions to the original location of your transaction log back ups and Write permissions to the destination folder.

I would consider using a domain account for your SQL server agent and make sure that user account has the proper share level and NTFS permissions for both locations. ...

Is your SQL server agent running under the network service account or a domain account?

Bethi,

Are you doing this in a data conversion task? If so, did you re-map your fields in your destination object?

Yes. I did try a repair first and was a little disappointed when it didn't work. Removing and re-installing IIS and .Net where my last ditch efforts before...

Ok,

After spending way too much time tinkering with this, I finally got SQL 2005 to reinstall properly. Here are the steps that I followed that finally worked:

1. Un-installed...

Will do!

Thanks for your efforts! They are greatly appreciated!

No this is not a named instance, though when 2005 was installed on the server before it was a named instance with SQL 2000 being the default instance.

After I uninstalled...

This is really odd. I have found post out there referring to some of the things I found in the install logs, bust most of them are referring back...

Yes I am.

Hmmm.....

There is not refference to B29A3732C1C117E44B49C59AF769AA91 anywhere in my registry. I checked both locations you mentioned and then ran a search on the entire registry. Seems odd considering that...

Ok,

That particular registry key does not exist. There are several others there. One each for SQLXML4, BooksOnline, .Net2.0, SQL Server Native Client, and Visual Studio.

AdAware is not installed...

Sorry Nicholas,

I am a little off today. Here is what appears to be the entire MSI subroutine.

MSI (s) (74:8C) [09:02:00:478]: Executing op: ChangeMedia(MediaVolumeLabel=SQLServer,MediaPrompt=Please insert the disk: Please insert...

Sure....

Action ended 9:02:02: InstallFinalize. Return value 1.

MSI (s) (74:20) [09:02:02:592]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\WINDOWS\Installer\MSI134.tmp, Entrypoint: Check_CommitFlag

Action start 9:02:02: Check_CommitFlag.D20239D7_E87C_40C9_9837_E70B8D4882C2.

Function=Check_CommitFlag

Doing Action: Check_CommitFlag

PerfTime Start: Check_CommitFlag : Sat...