A third party vendor installed SQL 2005 in an incorrectly named 'C:\Pogram
Files' directory. I've successfully moved the master, model, msdb db's to
the correct default 'C:\Program Files' but is there a way to move SQL
binaries to the correct location without uninstalling and reinstalling SQL
again?

Not that I am aware of. Even if there is a way to do this, I think it will be
much harder than uninstalling and reinstalling the SQL Server and then
restoring the databases or reattaching the database files. But I might be
wrong.

"kzakoski" wrote:

Some tools have to be there and you can't change the path for some certain
components of SQL Server.

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Ekrem Önsoy - SQL Server MVP



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The problem is the "vendor" put it in the wrong folder:

C:\Pogram Files\

Instead of:

C:\Program Files\

I missed that in the first read as well. But the user doesn't want to move
things to a non-standard location; it is the opposite.

Anyway I agree with another post in the thread: even if there is a way (and
I can't think of a clean one), I would rather uninstall the instance and
start over than to try and muscle everything into the right location. Bill
the vendor for your time.






On 7/25/09 6:55 AM, in article
F355EBB4-182F-4B2C-94E6-57BB7F06BFBE...soft (DOT) com, "Ekrem Önsoy"
<iletisim@ekrem[REMOVETHIS]onsoy.net> wrote:

Aha! I missed that, thanks =)

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