I had a file called 'program' in c:\ . I removed this and this works properly . Surprising but amazingly quick fix for this ....:-)

Thomas / Mike ,

Thanks for ur all valuable contributions . Here are my 2 cents to the discussions . We too had similar problems . What I noticed...

We too have the following error on our win 2k3 X64 cluster system using SQL2005 . Here is the cluster log leading to cluster failure as pointed out...

Did this error go . If yes how .

Thanks in advance .

I am also trying to install the SP4 (2059 build ) from SP3a (build 760). When upgrading (running setup.bat) , it hangs at the stage of 'Validating user / paswword...