Cannot find a valid Windows XP Embedded database installed

[Guest]

i am trying to install xp embedded sp2 on a database server. i am getting the
following error message.

"Cannot find a valid Windows XP Embedded database installed".

what i am attempting to do is setup a remote xp embedded component database
server. On the servrer, i first installed sql server 2005 express. I
installed the database only for sp1. i did not have a problem here.
i installed the tools on a client pc.
i can connect to the remote database server just fine using component
database manager on the client pc.
now i wish to install the sp2 database on the server pc. I cannot
succesffully do this.

what am i doing wrong here.

thanks,
jeff

 

[Nikolai Vorontsov]

Hi jbondITW,

what am i doing wrong here.

You have to either use default MSDE that come with XPe, or select proper
instance name during SQL2005 EE installation.
The instance name should be MSSQLSERVER instead of default SQLEXPRESS.
I have XPe database installed on SQL2005 EE, so it's possible

There was one more issue, but I already forgot why and what I did :-(
AFAIR, I made first installation on MSDE, the backed up database, then
install SQL2005 EE (with MSSQLSERVER instance name) and then restored
Mantis database from backup. I don't remember why the hell I did this,
but it was necessary :-( It could be that just instance renaming is enough.