Problem installing SQL Server client tools

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We are tring to install SQL Server 2005 Standard on Windows 2008 Standard both 64 bit. Have done this before with no problems.

This time we get an error during the installation of client tools:

There was an unexpected failure during
the setup wizard

Link Id 20476, message ID 50000

There are no errors in the event log.

Anybody have any ideas what could be wrong?

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I've run into something that before where 32-bit piece of the client tools got installed prior to my installing the 64-bit client tools. This is also the suspect of this debacle.

As you're perusing your setup log from joeqwerty's answer keep an eye out for this clash, even if you haven't (or even don't think you have) installed the 32-bit client tools.

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No.

Your SQL 2008 instance will require a distinct name but otherwise they should not interfere with each other.

-dave

SQL Server 2005 Standard edition on Windows 7 Professional

You need to look in the log files, you can start with this file:

  %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup Bootstrap\LOG\Summary.txt

If you post any suspicious-looking lines here, we'll have a better guess. If you can't figure out which line(s) might indicate a problem, then post the whole summary file somewhere so that we can help you figure it out. Right now, we only know as much as you've told us, which is simply, "it's broke."

Likely culprits:

conflicting installations of Visual Studio
previous installations of 2005 (including Express)
insufficient privileges (are you running the setup program as an administrator?)
anti-virus / spyware scanners (doubtful, but I'd disable them during setup anyway)

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