Sunday, March 25, 2012

CAN'T FULLY UNINSTALL SQL SERVER 2005 STANDARD

We have a Windows Server 2003 SP1 machine with two hard drives. I
installed MS SQL Server 2005 without paying attantion to where it
installed to. The c: drive is very small while d: is large. SQL
installed on c:. Apparentely, log files were growing and filled up all
the space on c:. I couldn't access SQL Server and decided uninstall it.
I went ahead and uninstall all components via add/remove programs.
After that I noticed all sql folders on c: are present, all services
are running and I was able to open Management Studio. At the same time
no SQL products are listed in add/remove. I need to fully uninstall it.
I tried command prompt pointing to the setup.exe file (where I copied
disks since it is a remote server) and failed.
Please, help!!!
StanYou did a reboot, right?
"suslikovich" <suslikovich@.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> We have a Windows Server 2003 SP1 machine with two hard drives. I
> installed MS SQL Server 2005 without paying attantion to where it
> installed to. The c: drive is very small while d: is large. SQL
> installed on c:. Apparentely, log files were growing and filled up all
> the space on c:. I couldn't access SQL Server and decided uninstall it.
> I went ahead and uninstall all components via add/remove programs.
> After that I noticed all sql folders on c: are present, all services
> are running and I was able to open Management Studio. At the same time
> no SQL products are listed in add/remove. I need to fully uninstall it.
> I tried command prompt pointing to the setup.exe file (where I copied
> disks since it is a remote server) and failed.
> Please, help!!!
> Stan
>|||Yes, I did a reboot after I uninstalled all sql products.
Stan

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