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  • March 2, 2009 at 3:50 pm

    #952163

    The registry fix worked for me.

    I installed SQL 7.0 MSDE on top of a working SQL Server 2005 adn the 2005 was clobbered. I tried re-installing SQL 2005 as a named instance and got the symptoms described at the start of the thread.

    Re-installed after applying the registry fix and it worked.

    Thanks Byron.