> Folks,
>
> Back on May 5, 2008 I posted a question under subject heading “The Wrong
> Volume is in the Drive …” regarding media installation errors. Well, I
> thought I had a workaround, and there were 1 or 2 times during my testing
> when it did work, but I have just run into an issue where it did not. And
> while this workaround may work in some instances, it is clumsy, awkward,
> and
> just not acceptable.
>
> So I would like to post this once again as I’m sure there must be a
> solution
> to this. I can’t imagine everyone is accepting this clumsy installation.
>
> Upgrade Path: SQL 2K Enterprise SP3 - > SQL 2K5 Enterprise SP2
> OS: Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4 (fresh install)
>
> First off, upon placing the media into the CD drive, I’m presented with an
> error dialogue box “A Runtime Error has occurred. Do you want to Debug?
> Line:45 Error: object doesn’t support this property or method” I select
> No.
>
> I then choose to install server components, etc and all is well, the first
> disk completes - no issues. I then insert the second CD to complete the
> installation. It is during the final component (Workstation Components,
> Book
> Online, etc) when I am presented with an error dialogue box indicating
> “The
> wrong volume is in the drive. Please insert volume SQLSRVS into drive D:.”
> At this point I have 3 options: Cancel, Try Again, Continue. Selecting any
> one of these options does not do anything; the error dialogue box simply
> does
> not go away. Not even with Task Manager can I kill this. I have to cancel
> the
> installation, go into Task Manager and kill both the Upgrade and the
> Error.
> Then as I understand the workaround to be, I have to run SQLRun_Tools.msi.
> from the second CD. Well, this time, on this particular OS/SQL pair it did
> not work for me.
>
> Surely, this must be resolved – no?
>
> At this point my upgrade plans are on hold until I can install without
> these
> media errors.
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Scott H.