When installing SQL Server 2008 tonight, I ran into an error toward the end of the installation:
The SQL Server 2005 Express Tools are installed. To continue, remove the SQL Server 2005 Express Tools.
Another blog post suggested going to the Control Panel Add/Remove Programs and starting the remove process for SQL Server 2005. This didn’t work for me – there was no option to just uninstall the workstation tools, only the 2005 database engine itself (which I didn’t want to do).
What did work for me: In the Add/Remove Programs dialog, uninstall the SQL Server 2005 Management Tools Express item.









