Hi there Scott

What i eventually did, which seemed to work and keep all settings and security the same was to scripts out just the user permissions from the old SQL2005...

Hi All

This is my problem. I have installed a brand new copy of SQL 2005 standard edition onto a Windows 2003 Stnadard server. The install went into e:\program files\microsoft SQL...

This doesn't work. You can stop the SQL 2005 services but you cannot change the way they start up