Thursday, March 29, 2012

Error Reporting: Installation on SQL 2005 on x64

I installed SQL 2005 on x64 machine and notice that my Y: drive (data drive) has these additional directories (shown below). I know those files are components of “Microsoft Application Error Reporting”. They are shared among multiple applications, hence them being in “common files”. After disabling the error reporting using Microsoft SQL Server 2005->Configuration Tools->Error and Usage Reporting, can I get rid of those directories or specify which directory that it should go to? Has anyone seen this before? Thanks.

The following had been installed to the drive that we did not specify in the installation of SQL 2005. Is there any way to redirect these file back the window directory?

Volume in drive Y is New Volume
Volume Serial Number is 882B-9F43
NULL
Directory of y:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\dw
NULL
06/01/2006 11:26 AM <DIR> .
06/01/2006 11:26 AM <DIR> ..
06/01/2006 11:26 AM <DIR> 1028
06/01/2006 11:26 AM <DIR> 1031
06/01/2006 11:26 AM <DIR> 1033
06/01/2006 11:26 AM <DIR> 1036
06/01/2006 11:26 AM <DIR> 1040
06/01/2006 11:26 AM <DIR> 1041
06/01/2006 11:26 AM <DIR> 1042
06/01/2006 11:26 AM <DIR> 2052
06/01/2006 11:26 AM <DIR> 3082
04/25/2005 01:44 PM 1,030,336 DW20.EXE
04/25/2005 01:44 PM 496,328 DWDCW20.DLL
04/25/2005 01:44 PM 489,672 DWTRIG20.EXE
3 File(s) 2,016,336 bytes
11 Dir(s) 85,983,068,160 bytes free
NULL

I'm pretty sure this is a setup bug where some components are not defaulting to the system drive, or sql drive, but to the drive where you launched setup from. I'm guessing you launched setup from the Y: drive. Don't know if there's a simple way to move them, but you can always uninstall, then reinstall, but this time launch setup from the drive you want these components installed on.sql

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