Thanks, I will answer your questions tonight when I get home. However, I already did exclude the whole attached drive from AV. But your other suggestions were really...

OK, now I tried to start SSMS from Start->Programs, and instead of bringing up SSMS, it brings up the SSIS package upgrade wizard. Do u know why this would...

I installed it on this external drive because my main drive ran out of space.

Yes, it was assigned letter F.

How do I validate this?

not sure about the AV...

Now when I start sqlserver.exe, I get the following error: 17058

initerrlog: Could not open error log file 'F:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Log\ERRORLOG'. Operating system error = 32(The process cannot access the...

SSMS program files are on this remote drive (USB). I navigated to binn/ directory and tried running the sqlserver.exe file but that's when I got the error. I...

What do u mean by kind of external drive? It's a USB drive.

Can you please expound on how u did this? I tried the above steps but I get the following error:

SSIS package "Package2.dtsx" starting.

Information: 0x4004300A at Data Flow Task 4,...