I ran into a problem running a 64 bit clustered install of SQL Server 2008
Standard Edition. This install was done on Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
Edition. The intial error message that I received was "The private
properties for resource 'SQL IP Address 1 (VirtualSQL)' could not be saved.
Error: Value does not fall within the expected range.

This error left me with a partially installed Clustered Instance. There was
a SQL Server cluster group created but the SQL Server cluster resources were
not added to this group. To address this problem, I removed the SQL Server
Cluster group manully using the Failover Cluster Manager then I tried
re-running the install. This was apparently not the right thing to do
because when I rerun the install of a clustered instance and try to install
the default instance it says that the MSSQLSERVER instance already exists. I
tried running a slipstream install with SP1 files and it has the same probem.
I then tried to uninstall the default instance and the install fails because
it can't find the cluster group. This makes sense because I manually deleted
it. I tried to find an option to force the uninstall but there does not seem
to be one.

So, I am caught up in a bit of a catch 22. I can't install a default
instance because it is already there but I can uninstall it either. I
suspect that this may require some manual registry manipulation but I don't
really want to go there.

Please help.

Thanks!

Chris

I am working with Microsoft on the same problem, except with Enterprise
edition. Are you using a CU version of the service pack or have you heard
wether you must use CU5 in order to install? Also, are you on R2 for Win2008
Ent?

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