Installing MSDE on Windows XP Machine

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Karen

When I try and install MSDE 2000 on an XP Machine I get the following
error.

Error message displayed re. "the software you are installing has not
passed Windows Logo testing to verify its compatibility with Windows
XP. This software will not be installed. Contact your system
administrator". Select ok. Error message then displayed re. "Microsoft
Data Access - Setup has enountered a problem & needs to close. We are
sorry for the inconvenience. If you were in the middle of working on
something, the information you were working on might be lost. "

Does anyone know where I can get the latest version of MSDE for XP?

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Karen
 
Based on the message it seems someone has patched windows to not allow installing (all files executed are checked against the compat database - one option is a warning and another is a hard block). MSDE installs fine on XP (just did it after not finding it in the compat database - ie the block was done by someone not MS). However an update is required for other reasons anyway.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...78-60a6-4b11-8aa8-bf12261a303a&DisplayLang=en
 
SQL Server (various versions) is in the App Compat DB with either patches (basically it looks for files in the current directory first) or a non blocking warning "an update may be available" depending on version.
 
It states that the supported operating systems are Windows 2000,
Windows Server 2003, Windows XP. Have you ever tried installing this
on Windows NT?

Thanks
Karen
 
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