Problems installing MSDE

When a double click setup.exe, I get the following message:

"SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine Setup

SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine cannot be installed on thiscomputer. This product requires Microsoft Windows NT Version 4.0 Service Pack 5or higher. Please download the service pack fromwww.microsoft.com prior to installing."

My machine is running Windows 2000 5.00.2195 Service Pack 4.
Anyone knows how to solve this problem?

Part of the problems installing MSDE is trying to install the service pack before SQL Server, try the link below and download the eval edition good for 120 days and the developer edition is $30 or less on the web . Hope this helps.
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/evaluation/trial/default.mspx|||Thanks for your advice. I didn't write back earlier because I wanted to try our solution until I it was successful.
I tried what you suggested, but I was still getting the error message.I looked into the autorun.inf file. In it it had these lines
...
[servicepack]
NTVersion=4
...
I verified that I could run MSDE on my OS by reading the documentation.Then, I commented out the line, and the installation rancorrectly.

PROBLEM: Database Mainence plan "All user Databases" missing database

If I select "All user Databases" and click T-SQL, 3 our of 4
databases are listed- and the missing database has not been backed up
via the plan. All databases are listed, however, when I select
"Selected Databases"- they are shown in the drop downbox.
This is for SQL 2005 Service Pack 2 with Hotfix 3175.
My guess: The missing database was restored and not restored to
overwrite an existing database. Since the CREATE DATABASE command was
not executed, maybe there is system info in master that doesn't get
set'
Help please. Thanks
Erik> My guess: The missing database was restored and not restored to
> overwrite an existing database. Since the CREATE DATABASE command was
> not executed, maybe there is system info in master that doesn't get
> set'
No, that should not be the reason. The same meta-data would exist regardless of how the database was
created (CREATE DATABASE, attach or by RESTORE). Perhaps the database is in 70 compatibility mode?
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Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/tibor_karaszi
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> If I select "All user Databases" and click T-SQL, 3 our of 4
> databases are listed- and the missing database has not been backed up
> via the plan. All databases are listed, however, when I select
> "Selected Databases"- they are shown in the drop downbox.
> This is for SQL 2005 Service Pack 2 with Hotfix 3175.
> My guess: The missing database was restored and not restored to
> overwrite an existing database. Since the CREATE DATABASE command was
> not executed, maybe there is system info in master that doesn't get
> set'
> Help please. Thanks
> Erik|||Thanks. No, i've seent that 7.0 Compat mode issue before, it is
actually set to 9.0.|||Do the plan do both db and log backup? Is this missing backup a db or a log backup? Perhaps there's
a difference in the recovery model setting.
If not, then I'd check other database options, just doing a quick visual compare:
SELECT * FROM sys.databases
--
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/tibor_karaszi
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> Thanks. No, i've seent that 7.0 Compat mode issue before, it is
> actually set to 9.0.|||Thanks for suggstions. I found that Auto Update Statistics was
different and I turned it on and also set to FULL RECOVER MODE and it
got listed in View t-SQL preview !!
THAN I turned everything back to the previous settings for my missing
databses and the All Databases support still was fixed and in tact! t-
SQL Preview showed my previously missing database.
Updating sys.databases seems to fix the problem. maybe there is some
trigger in the background or something.
Thank you for all of your help.
Erik