How to reinstall Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC)?
If you use Windows XP without SP2, please download the last version of MDAC at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/ and install it. If you use Windows XP with SP2, please follow the instructions below. ———————————————————————- Right-click on C:\Windows\Inf\mdac.inf and choose “Install”. When prompted for the XP SP2 media, point to the i386 folder in one of these places: 1. The \i386 folder on the XP SP2 CDROM. If you are unlucky enough to have a CDROM that has XPSP2.EXE in the root of the CDROM, and no \i386 folder, then you will have to create an i386 folder using a command like this: XPSP2.EXE /X:C:\XpSp2 Then point to C:\XpSp2\i386. 2. The \i386 folder on a slipstreamed XP SP2 installation CDROM. When prompted for the XP installation media, point to the i386 folder in one of these places: 1. C:\Windows\ServicepackFiles\i386 (it may not like this location, if not, go to the next one) 2. The \i386 folder on your XP installation CDROM. This
