Yes, unfortunately I've managed to bork my test SMS2003 SP1 setup .

I was trying to upgrade SQL Server 2000 to SP3a but the damn thing wouldn't install!
Every time I tried I could authenticate my Windows account with the server and thus couldn't upgrade it.

So I though f*** - it! ;-) Reinstall SQL.!
No luck. You can't just re-install it, you have to uninstall it first and then reinstall it, and then I screwed up where the data was located.

I would like to reinstall (sorry, uninstall and then re-install!) SMS2003 and then upgrade to SP1, losing all my data in the process. by the SMS install process can't connect to the SQL server  .

Reinstall Windows 2000 Server here I come!

So this will be the forth time I've started from scratch with SMS. I wonder if I can lay to rest one of my burning initial configuration issues with it?

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