Error Access 97 System.mdw
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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 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 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 comme