If you are looking at a way to repair an installation of Microsoft MDAC components (2.8 SP1) on Windows XP SP2 you may have found out it’s not immediately obvious how one can do it. In fact it appears to be impossible without uninstalling SP2 and then reinstalling it. Time consuming.
As far as I know with XP SP2 the MDAC components can not be uninstalled nor can they be reinstalled. It appears they are “built into” SP2, in that they are no longer treated as a separate component from the end users point of view. Trying to install the latest MDAC download from Microsoft.com will result in an incompatibility error something like “MDAC 2.8 RTM is incompatible..”
For various reasons you may wish to reinstall/repair MDAC. Perhaps you are finding certain MDAC dependant programs / scripts are not running or generate errors that indicate MDAC is faulty… or perhaps it’s something else troubling your PC. Anyway, repairing them is possible afterall.
Here’s a little tip I found for repairing the installation of MDAC 2.8
- Locate the mdac.inf file in c:\windows\inf
- Right click and select install
- When prompted for a location, point to c:\windows\servicepackfiles\i386
- Next when promtpet for the Windows XP cdrom, either load the cd or point to c:\i386
- Hey presto, this should have reinstalled / repaired MDAC 2.8
Please let a comment here if this helps you so that other people know of the results.
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