Adventureworks2008 Installation Problems

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I'm trying to install the adventureworks2008 database and I a large number of people having the same problem.

If attach the database, I get this error message:
Unable to open the physical file blah blah mssql\data\documents....
Could not open new database 'AdventureWorks2008'. CREATE DATABASE is aborted.

on the other hand, I get error message 'access denied' if I run this query:

SQL

USE [master] 
GO 
CREATE DATABASE [AdventureWorks2008] ON  
( FILENAME = N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\DATA\AdventureWorks2008_Data.mdf' ), 
( FILENAME = N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\DATA\AdventureWorks2008_Log.ldf' ), 
FILEGROUP [PRIMARY] CONTAINS FILESTREAM DEFAULT  
( NAME = N'Documents', FILENAME = N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\DATA\Documents' ) 
FOR ATTACH 
GO

Let me know if you have dealt with this. Any feedback is greatly appreciated. Thx.

Posted 6-Sep-12 3:08am

lesponce

Updated 6-Sep-12 6:13am

Sandeep Mewara

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Richard MacCutchan 6-Sep-12 9:37am

Looks like permission problems on your disk, are you running as administrator?

lesponce 6-Sep-12 9:49am

Yes, I am running as admin.

Richard MacCutchan 6-Sep-12 9:54am

Well there must be some other reason that you are getting denied access to that path, but it's impossible to guess what that reason may be.

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