This information saved the small amount of sanity I have left.  Thanks.

Thank you Tim!

At last... a solution that worked.

:-)

When I try this I get access denied messages, I take it this needs to be run in admin mode, in which case how do I do that?

For anyone else who comes across this problem, right click the cmd.exe and run as administrator, then run the commands in the blog, will fail fisrt time round but just do it again and it works.

Tim, I had proud of you!

Thanks!

Tim, you are a scholar and a gentleman.  Thank you.

Dude, you saved me.  After hours of fighting, these simple instructions worked.  Had to run the salvage 3 times (took 5-8 minutes each time).

My wife wishes good things for u as a thanks.

Thank you soooo much!!!!

Would someone please wax prophetic on these MOF files, the relevance of Vista to something concerning xpsp2 (XP service pack 2??!?), and WMI?  I hate not understanding the underlying cause of this $!@%!@^

I'm getting the same problem but winmgmt /verifyrepository detects no problem with my WMI installation.  Any other suggestions? (I've now seen this more than a dozen times, trying different install techniques).

TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Setup

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SQL Server Setup Failed to compile the Managed Object Format (MOF) file c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Shared\sqlmgmproviderxpsp2up.mof. To proceed, see "Troubleshooting an Installation of SQL Server 2005" or "How to: View SQL Server 2005 Setup Log Files" in SQL Server 2005 Setup Help documentation.

For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=20476&ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=9.00.1399.06&EvtSrc=setup.rll&EvtID=29513&EvtType=sqlca%5csqlmofca.cpp%40Do_sqlMofcomp%40Do_sqlMofcomp%40x7349

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This Microsoft Knowledge Base article appears to be relevant:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926623

However, the problem in question does not appear to be fixed and the workaround described did not work for me. :(

Hi,

After spending hours on trying to figure the cause of the error, and doing all sorts of installations, I came to your site through a google search and then, your fix helped me a lot.

Thanks a lot for sharing this tip.

The work around in the site, I too tried it and it did not work for me.

Definitely, you are tha man!!!! Thanx... I almost slam the server against the floor...

Thank's for share this precious information

Thank you very much for this helpful post!

thank you man!!!

you are de man!

Thank you, that helped me out, had to run as administrator; was "access denied" otherwise, had to run thre times to stop all the services.

Thank you, thank you and thank you !!

you just saved a life, i was just going throw me and my notebook out the window. thanks...

U R  A Genius

Saved another life, took 3 attempts on the salvagerepository but eventually it worked :) cheers

Thank you. A simple solution to a big headache... This is what knowledge sharing is all about. !!!

THANK YOU!

thank you. fyi I had to run salvagerepository 8 times to stop all services.

thanks Tim, works like a charm

Dude, my first born.. shall be named TIM!!!!

thanks for the help, you saved my sanity.  I just love following instructions that actually work. :-)  (hint hint MS)

WOOHOOOO!!!!!!!!! It works