Problem installing MDAC on Windows 2000

I am having trouble getting SQL 2000 installed on a test domain controller. It crashes during the part that says it is installing the MDAC components.

I have tried installing MDAC independently and right near the end it says that Setup is rolling back the installation. There are no setup errors listed at all and the only choice is to close setup.

I have found two KB articles and went through all the suggestions and still couldn’t get it to work.

HOWTO: MDAC Setup Troubleshooting Guide (Q232060)
INFO: Component Checker: Diagnose Problems and Reconfigure MDAC Installations (Q307255)

The second KB article basically says that MDAC can not be replaced/repaired without reinstalling the operating system. Has anybody else seen this and know away around it?

I have been able to get SQL 7 installed successfully which would work fine for my purposes but I still have a problem with MDAC because when ever I try an run an ASPX page with a database connection I get this error:

The .Net Data SQL Provider (System.Data.SqlClient) requires Microsoft Data Access Components(MDAC) version 2.6 or later

I finaly figured this out. The solution that worked for me can be found here:

MDAC Fix

But it breaks down to this -

Q: "Installation of the Microsoft Data Access Components package failed. (-1)"-- Error occurs during setup ?

A:Some workarounds...

Sugg1
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Check and see if the registry key

'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Cur rentVersion\Setup\Exceptio
nComponents'

exists on the server. If it does, then you will need to
delete this key, and re run the setup. Before deleting the key, make sure
you backup the registry in case you need to restore the key. It seems
there was a previous install of MDAC that did not complete successfully or
completely

Thanks for sharing Buk