Install SQL 2000 (32bit) on Windows Server 2008 64 bit server?

• Fishbarnriots

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  November 16, 2009 at 5:31 am

  #73013

  I have been asked to install SQL server 2000 standard edition (32 bit) onto a 64 bit server running Windows Server 2008. Obviously the installation is failing with message "cannot start or run due to incompatibity with 64-bit versions of Windows. Please contact the software vendor to ask if a 64-bit Windows compatible version is available."

  Is there any way round this issue, or is it an impossible task?

• Joie Andrew

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  November 17, 2009 at 3:20 pm

  #1080580

  http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlreleaseservices/

  "SQL Server 2000 and below are not supported on Vista/Windows Server 2008 and above (which includes Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2)"

  It is listed about a third of the way down on the post.

  Joie Andrew
  "Since 1982"