Hallo,

I've tried to uninstall SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition from my System
(Windows XP Prof. SP3).
The following reinstall failed, because some components of a higher version
(SP 2 of SQL Server) aren't deinstalled. Now the installer tells me, that I
first have to uninstall these components (e.g. reporting services,
workstation tools), before I can install SQL Server 2005. But the big
problem is, that I can't uninstall these components, because the
(un)installer raises errors like: can't find XY).

How can I manually uninstall the complete SQL Server, so that I'm able to
make a clean reinstall?

PS: The article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909967 doesn't succeed.

Regards
Stephan

Oh dude, you have to crawl through the registry and manually delete anything
related to SQL. It's rough and it takes a long time, but I had to do it
myself a couple months ago.
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"Stephan Schneider" wrote:

> Hallo,
>
> I've tried to uninstall SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition from my System
> (Windows XP Prof. SP3).
> The following reinstall failed, because some components of a higher version
> (SP 2 of SQL Server) aren't deinstalled. Now the installer tells me, that I
> first have to uninstall these components (e.g. reporting services,
> workstation tools), before I can install SQL Server 2005. But the big
> problem is, that I can't uninstall these components, because the
> (un)installer raises errors like: can't find XY).
>
> How can I manually uninstall the complete SQL Server, so that I'm able to
> make a clean reinstall?
>
> PS: The article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909967 doesn't succeed.
>
> Regards
> Stephan
>
>
>