Hey,

If this is not the right place, please move it to the right place.

My company wants me to install a certain piece of software on a computer running Windows SQL 2005. They tried to install it before I came in and had problems.

I read the directions and called the company. While installing software the computer can not have SQL 2005 on it; but can have it on afterwards. The support personal said that I would have to remove 2005 inorder to properly install the software and then reinstall 2005 after.

My question is, is there anyway around this? I'll go through the process. However, I do not want to if at all possible. I figure this is not possible, however I will give it a shot.

They said some of the components are the same and when the installer reads them it will not install the needed components.

Thanks in advance