September 21, 2005 at 11:46 am
I had SQL 7.0 installed on a Win 98 machine.
While I was away somebody upgraded the machine to win 2000 prof.
Now I cannot connect to SQL Server at all, it gives the following error:
"A connection could not be established to *MachineName* - Specified SQl server not found. (ConnectionOpen (CreateFile())..
Please verify SQL Server is running and check your SQL Server registration properties (by right-clicking on the *MachineName node) and try again."
I verified SQL server is running.
The .mdf and .ldf files are available. Also there's an accounting application called Scala which had its database on SQL. Its has .dat files (Scadev.dat) and the files are available too.
How can I recover the database connection and restore my database. Even on a new machine if thats what it takes.
thanks in advance.
September 21, 2005 at 1:49 pm
I though I got the same error as well when we rename 7.0 server. We fixed it by runing setup again on this server but it doesn't do the full install, it just verify the file and complete. For your situation, how about copy the .mdf and .ldf files to a different folder and they try to run setup again.
I have never run into your exact situation so this is only my suggestion.
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