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Unable to install MSDE

I'm using a stand alone Window XP Home Edition and I have Acronis Timeclock Software which requires MSDE installed. First of all I get an error stating the SQL server installation is either corrupt or has been tampered with (unknown package id). Please rerun setup. Then I went and get rid of that error and now I'm trying to install it and it gives me an error of "The path specified in a command line argument is invalid argument is invalid <Path> /x86/Setup/Setup.iss". What can I do to resolve this issue

mastertechnc

it sounds like the installer is corrupted, just download msde from microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=413744D1-A0BC-479F-BAFA-E4B278EB9147&displaylang=en

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torimar

It looks to me like the MSDE installation cannot be started like any other install simply by starting a setup executable. It requires, as a commandline argument, the full path to a valid .ISS file.

If you did not create such an .ISS file yourself or don't even know what that is, try starting the install procedure like this from a command prompt in the folder where msdex86.exe resides:

msdex86.exe s a f1 "sql70ins.iss"

If this doesn't work, check your installation media for Readme files or other types of instructions, since they seem to needs be consulted in this special case.

torimar

Sorry, don't know what happened up there in my startup commandline. It was copy/paste from a MS page - possibly with some sort of strange encoding.
Instead of the exclamation marks, hyphens have to be used:

msdex86.exe -s -a -f1 "sql70ins.iss"