Hello.
I tried to install MSDE 2000. The installation process could not be finished
successfully. After reboot my computer I get the error message:
Your SQL Server installation is either corrupt or has been tampered with
(unknown package id).
It is impossible to re-install the MSDE ans it isn't shown in the system
mangement.

hi Dirk,
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according to Microsoft KB,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;229875, only SQL
Server 7 should be affected by this problem..
if you run the setup.exe installer specifying the
/L*v "c:\log.txt"
parameter in order to enable verbose logging of the setup process, you can
inspect the resulting text file for
RETURN VALUE 3
entries, indicating troubles, and about 15/20 lines before each entry some
(sometime cryptic) description of the found problem will be reported..
to manually unistall and/or clear an MSDE instance please refer to
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320873, which also
require use of the Msizap.exe tool from the Windows Installer platform SDK
to clear Windows Installer related entries, and/or
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q290991 (with no
cleaning of the Windows Installer registry related entries)
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Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtm http://italy.mvps.org
DbaMgr2k ver 0.12.0 - DbaMgr ver 0.58.0
(my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
interface)
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Thanks for your response. Meanwhile I solved the problem for myself. I've
killed the relevant registry keys and the problem was solved.

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