Posted on: 1/15/2014 8:20:24 PM | Views : 712

I'd say this is one of the strangest errors I have encountered in 35 years of dealing with computers:
SQLEXPR_x64_ENU will install fine but it doesn't contain the tools.
Neither SQLEXPRADV_x64_ENU nor SQLEXPRWT_x64_ENU will install.  When either .exe is run it goes through a long unpacking sequence and then runs what appears to be the ATI Catalyst installer although it gets stuck and won't go far enough for me to be certain that that's what it's up to.  As soon as the installer is run the whole directory structure that it unpacked to is deleted.
I do have an ATI card using the Catalyst driver in my machine and I can confirm that the file that's actually running at that point is in that directory structure, not anything from the installer package.  I have no other 64 bit hardware to test on.

Edit:  Nevermind.  I got access to someone else's 64-bit machine and since I didn't have the installer at hand I ...

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