Problem installing SQL 2005 Server Express

I have the beta versions installed, got an error:

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Setup beginning at Wed Aug 16 18:14:14 2006 Process ID : 4668 c:\8c27e35b5d509dc8609c33e266\setup.exe Version: 2005.90.2047.0 Running: LoadResourcesAction at: 2006/7/16 18:14:13 Complete: LoadResourcesAction at: 2006/7/16 18:14:13, returned true Running: ParseBootstrapOptionsAction at: 2006/7/16 18:14:14 Loaded DLL:c:\8c27e35b5d509dc8609c33e266\xmlrw.dll Version:2.0.3609.0 Complete: ParseBootstrapOptionsAction at: 2006/7/16 18:14:14, returned true Running: ValidateWinNTAction at: 2006/7/16 18:14:14 Complete: ValidateWinNTAction at: 2006/7/16 18:14:14, returned true Running: ValidateMinOSAction at: 2006/7/16 18:14:14 Complete: ValidateMinOSAction at: 2006/7/16 18:14:14, returned true Running: PerformSCCAction at: 2006/7/16 18:14:14 Complete: PerformSCCAction at: 2006/7/16 18:14:14, returned true Running: ActivateLoggingAction at: 2006/7/16 18:14:14 Complete: ActivateLoggingAction at: 2006/7/16 18:14:14, returned true Delay load of action "DetectPatchedBootstrapAction" returned nothing. No action will occur as a result. Action "LaunchPatchedBootstrapAction" will be skipped due to the following restrictions: Condition "EventCondition: __STP_LaunchPatchedBootstrap__4668" returned false. Running: PerformSCCAction2 at: 2006/7/16 18:14:14 Loaded DLL:C:\WINDOWS\system32\msi.dll Version:3.1.4000.2435 Product "{2750B389-A2D2-4953-99CA-27C1F2A8E6FD}" versioned 9.00.0981 is not compatible with current builds of SQL Server.Expected at least version: 9.00.1399.00 The Product Name is "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Tools Express Edition Beta 3" Loaded DLL:C:\WINDOWS\system32\msi.dll Version:3.1.4000.2435 Error: Action "PerformSCCAction2" threw an exception during execution. Return Code: 70032 Message displayed to user SQL Server 2005 Setup has detected incompatible components from beta versions of Visual Studio, .NET Framework, or SQL Server 2005. Use Add or Remove Programs to remove these components, and then run SQL Server 2005 Setup again. For detailed instructions on uninstalling SQL Server 2005, see the SQL Server 2005 Readme. Class not registered. Delay load of action "UploadDrWatsonLogAction" returned nothing. No action will occur as a result.

I ran msiexec /x "{2750B389-A2D2-4953-99CA-27C1F2A8E6FD}" without the quotes and got the following:

The setup has encounted an unexpected error in datastore. The action is Write_CommitFlag. The error is Unable to write property into cache: "flagCommit" XmRW Error: Failure loading xmlw.dll CheckAllProcedures[] return 2

I have ran the uninstall tool and deleted everything beta, etc from the add and remove list.

I have Visual Studio 2003 installed and SQL 7 and 2000 installed as well. I have now reinstalled all the other express tools and they are not working correctly either, but it may be because I can not get SQL 2005 Server Express installed.

Please help, hindering my school work.

Dee

This indicates that some beta components (files, reg keys, etc) still exist on your machine. Check the core setup log file located at %Program Files%\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup Bootstrap\LOG\Files, whose name should be like SQLSetup0001_%machinename%_Core(Local).log. It will tell your the version of the beta components. Try the following steps sequently to remove those beta components.

1. Uninstall any visible Beta components in Add/Remove Program.
2. Remove all registy keys related to the specific Beta version, which you can get from the core log files. You need to search the whole registry tree with regedit command.
3. Kill any Beta services (including SQL, OLAP, SQLAGENT, SQLBROWSER, ...).
4. Reboot the machine.

Thanks,
Sam Lester (MSFT)

|||Under program files\microsoft sql server I have a directory 80, is this part of the beta?|||It is using this product "{2750B389-A2D2-4953-99CA-27C1F2A8E6FD}" and I can not find it anywhere