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Author  Topic  vajpaca Starting Member 3 Posts Posted - 2008-08-24 : 07:41:20 Hi Everybody, I am a Chartered Accountant and am using a customised SQL based VB application. I am new to SQL Servers, previously I was using Foxpro Database. We were using SQL 2000 with SP4 on Win Server 2003 since last year, while trying to implement RAID on my server, I accidently moved the data folder of SQL Server, after which even on its restoring back to original location the server did not start. I tried rebuilding the registry thru SQL Server Installation Disk, but that did not did the job. So I tried re-intalling SQL server, did also did not worked. Then I deleted all SQL Installation & Data files after taking backup of Data files directory, and also deleted all references of SQL in Windows registry. Then I tried re-installing SQL Server 2000 without SP4, it copied all files and then while configuring server installation failed. Now I need to re-install SQL Server but do not know how to do it. Could anyone of you help. Thanks in advance.