A program is attempting to install MSDE 2000 as part of its package as it requires an SQL database backend, it is failing when attempting to load the setup engine with an error saying that it is unable to complete the setup.
The system it is being installed on is a recently recovered system, however instead of a clean wipe and restore - Windows XP was re-installed back over the top. I believe this is causing some incompatibilities between the two installs. Is anyone aware how you could remove all previous trace of MSDE? Or perhaps a way to force it to install. The event log also provides this hint;
WMI ADAP was unable to create the object Win32_PerfFormattedData_MSSQLSQLEXPRESS_MSSQLSQLEXPRESSBufferManager for Performance Library MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS because error 0x80041002 was returned
Which again suggests that it is due to a duplicated install. I don't have access to WMIC on this machine as its before its time (Windows XP) but I could get access to a WMI query tool at some point later in the weekend.
