Thanks - turns out the issue was a program called NeatReceipts which had installed a base version of MSSQL2K5, making my install of MSSQL2K5 an *upgrade* to the current version...

Unfortunately, one of the precursor steps (where it checks about 30 different things and reports info/warning/errors in a grid) sees the previous MSSQL2K install and the subsequent step of the...

I'm just going through the 2K5 install and it doesn't ask where to put the 2K5 server or any files - it just assumes I want to upgrade my current...

Would it be easier/better to just run MSSQL2K5 in a VMWare instance? I won't have my MS Dev Studio available (I'm trying to develop a UDF in .NET for...

I've got MSSQL2K (v8.00.2039, w/SP4) installed and I want to install MSSQL2K5 Enterprise (or any other edition, if another works better) alongside the 2K version so I have complete access...

I just hit this myself. I need to maintain my MSSQL2K install and run MSSQL2K5 simultaneously on the same box. The MSSQL2K5 sees the MSSQL2K installation and wants...