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seems like registry corruption<br />
what error you see?
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seems like registry corruption
what error you see?

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Hi<br />
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Long story short - had some problems with my Windows 203 server system and I am trying to reinstall various tools etc. &nbsp;One of the tools depends on ms sql server and won't install - seems like there is a partial install of sql server still on the system that I can't get rid of. I want to delete &nbsp;HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWAR<wbr />E\Microsof<wbr />t\MSSQLSer<wbr />ver etc., but regedit throws an error and says that it can't delete these. &nbsp;<br />
Tried in safe mode with the same results<br />
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H E L P<br />

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Hi

Long story short - had some problems with my Windows 203 server system and I am trying to reinstall various tools etc.  One of the tools depends on ms sql server and won't install - seems like there is a partial install of sql server still on the system that I can't get rid of. I want to delete  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSSQLServer etc., but regedit throws an error and says that it can't delete these.  
Tried in safe mode with the same results

H E L P


Cannot delete ms sql server registry entries

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