Rebuild master db of SQL 2000 fails with sharing violation

Hi,
Can't see why there's a sharing violation.
MSSQLSERVER service is stopped, as is SQLSERVERAGENT
I've not got any open windows viewing this dir.
The data is on hard disk and not marked read only.
What else could it be?
Thanks
MartinHi,
Can you rebuild the master database based on the steps mentioned in the
below article.
http://www.dbarecovery.com/restoremasterdb.html
Thanks
Hari
MCDBA
"Martin" <x@.y.z> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> Can't see why there's a sharing violation.
> MSSQLSERVER service is stopped, as is SQLSERVERAGENT
> I've not got any open windows viewing this dir.
> The data is on hard disk and not marked read only.
> What else could it be?
> Thanks
> Martin
>|||Hello-
I'm experiencing a similar problem. "Cannot copy master. There has been a
sharing violation. The source or destination file may be in use. Rebuild m
aster failed with error 266: The copy functions cannot be used" ... when att
empting to Rebuild with the
Rebuild Master Utility. The data files have been copied from CD-ROM and the
Read-Only attribute has been removed. I still get the error. The work aro
und posted as MS Knowledge Base Article 238678 RebuildM Cannot Find Original
Master Database Files for
MSDE Installation does not work either. It suggests running msdex86 ... whi
ch isn't recognized. Any help would be much appreciated!
"Hari Prasad" wrote:

> Hi,
> Can you rebuild the master database based on the steps mentioned in the
> below article.
> http://www.dbarecovery.com/restoremasterdb.html
> --
> Thanks
> Hari
> MCDBA
> "Martin" <x@.y.z> wrote in message
> news:#SddJUZaEHA.384@.TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>
>|||Moved the data files to a different directory and now the Rebuild works. H
mmmm...
"bulld0g77" wrote:

> Hello-
> I'm experiencing a similar problem. "Cannot copy master. There has been a sharin
g violation. The source or destination file may be in use. Rebuild master failed w
ith error 266: The copy functions cannot be used" ... when attempting to Rebuild wit
h t
he Rebuild Master Utility. The data files have been copied from CD-ROM and
the Read-Only attribute has been removed. I still get the error. The work
around posted as MS Knowledge Base Article 238678 RebuildM Cannot Find Origi
nal Master Database Files f
or MSDE Installation does not work either. It suggests running msdex86 ... which isn't reco
gnized. Any help would be much appreciated![vbcol=seagreen]
> "Hari Prasad" wrote:
>