An Error Has Occurred At Changing Workgroup Database Access 97
Ask a Question Need help? Post your question and get tips & solutions from a community of 418,419 IT Pros & Developers. It's quick & easy. Access 97 Install Difficulty on Windows XP - System.mdw P: n/a Tim Marshall I've just received a new computer with Win XP Version 5.1.2600. I want to have Access 2003 and Access 97 running on this, so I did some googling on cdma and it seems I must install these versions of Access "sequentially", ie, A97, first. When I use the Office 97 installation cd, pick my choices, I end up, at the end of the installation, an error telling me the system.mdw could not be created. When I click OK on this, the installer tells me to run the work group administrator on restart. Well, I can't. I'm trying to create a system.mdw. Can someone please help me. The googling I've done on 97/2003 co-existence didn't seem to pick up this problem or I missed it. Thanks very much in advance. -- Tim - http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~tmarshal/ ^o< /#) "Burp-beep, burp-beep, burp-beep?" - Quaker Jake /^^ "What's UP, Dittoooooo?" - Ditto Nov 13 '05 #1 Post Reply Share this Question 1 Reply P: n/a Tim Marshall Well, I figured this out and am going to reply to it for the sake of Googlers to come. My machine: Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600], ie sp 1a Pentium 3.2 2.0 Gigs RAM Server: MS Server 2003 (not sure if this had anything to do with it) On installing Office components from Office 97 cd, the following error messages are encountered: On completion of the installation, a message box entitled "Workgroup Administrator" appears with the message: "An error has occurred at changing workgroup database" On clicking the OK button, another message box with the same title appears: "Setup couldn't create a system.mdw file. After setup is complete, reboot your computer then run the workgroup administrator before you run this application (-1011)." From my investigation of the issue, it appears Office 97 is (obviously) not equipped to deal with the file and security arrngement of Windows XP. System.mdw is usually created in the c:\windows\system32 directory. I assume program files and windows directories are set up in Win XP such that alteration or creation of files within them requires some kind of coding from the client application (in this case, Office 97) in use. My fix was to: 1) reboot my computer as described above; 2) apply service release patches (in my case sr1 and sr 2). Both the sr1 and sr2 installations will reboot the computer on completion of the update; 3) after rebooting the computer from sr2 installation, make sure a direc
Posted on January 22, 2010 by martcj Before Access 97 finishes installing it complains that it cannot create c:\windows\system32\system.mdw and to open the Workgroup Administrator to create a system.mdw file. When I tried to create a system.mdw file it failed with the error ‘An error has occurred at changing workgroup database.’ I was never able to create a new system.mdw file. Instead I copied one from another PC and used that. However, when https://bytes.com/topic/access/answers/201419-access-97-install-difficulty-windows-xp-system-mdw I opened Access 97 I then started to get an ‘Out of Memory’ error. After some reading I found that the ‘Out of Memory’ error was caused when a device had more than 1GB RAM and was running the Microsoft Jet Database Engine version 3.0 and 3.5. Microsoft released Microsoft Jet Database Engine version 3.51 which is https://martcj.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/access-97-cannot-create-cwindowssystem32system-mdw-file/ available here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/172733 Ensure that you have Microsoft Office 97 Service Release 2 (SR-2) installed before installing the latest version of the Jet Database Engine Share this:FacebookTwitterEmailLike this:Like Loading... Related This entry was posted in MS Office and tagged Access 97, Jet Database Engine, system.mdw, Workgroup Administrator. Bookmark the permalink. Post navigation ← Unable to delete a logical drive from an array on a HP SAN How to start Microsoft SQL in Single User mode → One thought on “Access 97 cannot create c:\windows\system32\system.mdw file” Pressure March 11, 2013 at 11:56 am Reply Thanks for the info. Very helpful! Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here... Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email (Address never made public) Name Website You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. (LogOut/Change) You are commenting using your Twitter account. (LogOut/Change) You are commenting using your Facebook account. (LogOut/Change) You are commenting using your Google+ account. (LogOut/Change) Cancel Connecting to %s Notify me of new comments vi
Chris_Elliott Guest About ten years ago, I used started using Access to create a database for I book I am writing. (Installed from http://www.office-forums.com/threads/reinstalling-access-97-on-a-vista-pc.797018/ Office 97 Professional Edition.) I just reinstalled Access every time I got http://www.pcreview.co.uk/threads/access-97-installation-error-in-windows-vista.3413573/ a new PC, and carried on with the database. Recently, when I got a new computer running Vista, I used LapLink PC Mover to transfer files and programs across from my old PC. Everything worked OK for a while, then Windows Vista started encountering major problems, and eventually, an error after exhausting all the other options, I had to reformat the HD and reinstall it. However, when I tried to reinstall Access from the Office 97 Professional Edition CD, I got a series of error messages with a Workgroup Administrator heading. "An error has occurred at changing Workgroup Database." "Setup couldn't create a SYSTEM.MDW file. After setup is completed, reboot an error has your computer, then run the Workgroup Administrator before you run this application. (-1011) I tried running the Workgroup Administrator, and got two error messages: "Couldn't find the file c:\windows\system32\system.mdw. This file is required for startup." "An error has occurred at changing workgroup database." I'm now using Open Office, and don't want to upgrade to the latest version of Microsoft Office Professional just to get a working version of Access, but at the moment I can't access my own database. Can anyone tell me how to reinstall Access 97 on a Vista machine, or what to do so that I can open the . mdb file for my database in another program. (Open Office Base will connect to it, but only to do very limited editing.) Thanks in anticipation of help. Chris_Elliott, Mar 28, 2010 #1 Advertisements Gina Whipp Guest Cris, Since I have never tried loading Access 97 on my Vista machine could not offer first time experience but I did find this that might help... http://www.vistax64.com/vista-security/182769-installing-access-97-vista.html ....scroll almost to the bottom to get what Chris Barne
the installation, a message box entitled "Workgroup Administrator" appears with the message: "An error has occurred at changing workgroup database" On clicking the OK button, another message box with the same title appears: "Setup couldn't create a system.mdw file. After setup is complete, reboot your computer then run the workgroup administrator before you run this application (-1011)." Please help. Thx. Chlaris Chlaris, Feb 9, 2008 #1 Advertisements Rick Brandt Guest Chlaris wrote: > Dear all, > > On completion of the installation, a message box entitled "Workgroup > Administrator" appears with the message: > > "An error has occurred at changing workgroup database" > > On clicking the OK button, another message box with the same title > appears: > "Setup couldn't create a system.mdw file. After setup is complete, > reboot your computer then run the workgroup administrator before you > run this application (-1011)." > > Please help. Thx. > > Chlaris By default Access 97 placed the default System.MDW file in the Windows\System32 folder. This is a folder that Vista doesn't like you to use unless you run as administrator. Either install Access 97 as an administrator of manually create a System.MDW file in a less locked down location and join it using the Workgroup Administrator tool. -- Rick Brandt, Microsoft Access MVP Email (as appropriate) to... RBrandt at Hunter dot com Rick Brandt, Feb 9, 2008 #2 Advertisements Chlaris Guest Hello Rick, How to make sure that I run as administrator in Windows Vista ? Thx. "Rick Brandt" <> wrote in message news:yRirj.7734$... > Chlaris wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> On completion of the installation, a message box entitled "Workgroup >> Administrator" appears with the message: >> >> "An error has occurred at changing workgroup database" >> >> On clicking the OK button, another message box with the same title >> appears: >> "Setup couldn't create a system.mdw file. After setup is complete, >> reboot your computer the