Mark,

Thanks for letting me know how much time this has saved you. Its done the same for our shop. I frankly wonder how people get along without some automated means to move the system databases. Its just so error-prone and time-consuming to do it manually.

I believe I had a similar error to yours once, referred to in the original article. You need to ensure that the old copy of mssqlsystemresource is not located in the original install directory, because the SPs will assume that's the active one if they see it. So after running the move script, ensure you don't see the .ldf and .mdf for mssqlsystemresource anywhere on D:.

Let me know if that's of help.

Vince