Problems installing to a new PC

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Adora Belle Dearheart

Having finally got work to buy me a new PC, I've been trying to install
my XPe tools.
When I get to installing the database I get:

An ERROR occurred while attaching the database to SQL Server, file:
d:\Windows Embedded Data\MantisSQLDB_Data.mdf, message: [Microsoft][ODBC
SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Could not open new database 'MantisSQLDB'.
CREATE DATABASE is aborted.
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Device activation error.
The physical file name 'e:\Windows Embedded Data\MantisSQLDB_log.LDF'
may be incorrect.

Well, it certainly is incorrect, because while on the old machine the
data drive was e:, on this one it's d:. Any idea what the hell is going on?
 
Adora,

Are you trying to use your old-machine Mantis database on the new PC?
If so, did you properly detached the DB on the old PC before you copied the MDF file over to new PC?
 
This occured on a fresh install? The only suggest is to reboot and try
again. Make sure MSDE got installed properly.

Did you install VS 2005 with SQL Express before installing XPe?

-Sean
 
Sean said:
This occured on a fresh install? The only suggest is to reboot and try
again. Make sure MSDE got installed properly.

Did you install VS 2005 with SQL Express before installing XPe?
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No, I'm not a developer, but I'm not running on MSDE either - SQL Server
2000.
 
KM said:
Adora,

Are you trying to use your old-machine Mantis database on the new PC?
If so, did you properly detached the DB on the old PC before you copied the MDF file over to new PC?
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Nope. Just trying to install the thing. The files from before are on the
secondary HD, but I wasn't trying to install to the same place.
 
This happened to me a couple of weeks ago when I updated to FP2007 build 2. I
copied "Windows\Embedded\Data" folder to a second drive that I used for my
database backup before I uninstalled the Component database manager so I can
restore it after I install the upgrade. During the re-installation, it was
giving me an error on the database file on the second drive that has the
backup files so I renamed the backup folder and I got thru the installation
fine. It seems like the setup is looking for existing database files on all
the drives on the system not on the current directory you specified during
setup.
Hope this will solve your issue.

Evelyn
 
Evelyn said:
This happened to me a couple of weeks ago when I updated to FP2007 build 2. I
copied "Windows\Embedded\Data" folder to a second drive that I used for my
database backup before I uninstalled the Component database manager so I can
restore it after I install the upgrade. During the re-installation, it was
giving me an error on the database file on the second drive that has the
backup files so I renamed the backup folder and I got thru the installation
fine. It seems like the setup is looking for existing database files on all
the drives on the system not on the current directory you specified during
setup.
Hope this will solve your issue.
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Aha! That sounds like it'll do it. I'm back on my old PC at the moment
but I don't think I tried renaming the folder on the d: drive. I'll see
if that helps.
 
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