Installing SQL Express : File Is Corrupt !!!

Oct 20, 2006

Hello,
On my computer, XP SP2, VB 2005 Express and VisualWeb 2005 Express are installed.

SQL 2005 Server express was also automatically installed in the same time.

I want to complete this SQL SERVER EXPRESS Installation, by downloading complements;

No problem to install SQL Server Management Studio

but problem occurs :

I downloaded SQLEXPR_ADV_FRN.EXE (Version : 0.0.0.0)

When I want to install it, I have a first box Extracting Files with :

Extracting Files : setupsqlrun_rs.msi
To Directory ; i:8eefbf891116a71dbc7190cceb05b9

(I don€™t know why it wants to install in this partition !!!!)

Then an error box :
Extraction Failed
File is corrupt

I had same issue when I tried to install SQLEXPR_TOOLKIT_FRN.EXE

Can anyone explain me how to resolve these issues ?

Regards

Mouspi

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