No. There is no "C:\Program" directory on this machine. Thanks Karim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Karim Mardhani" <karim@xxxxxxxxxxx>; <pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 2:49 PM Subject: RE: [ADMIN] Initdb error during silent install on windows 2000 > One update on this problem. > > I updated my install script to create a directory "md > C:\pgdata" and update the command line for postgresql install > to include "DATADIR=C:\pgdata" and everything works fine. > > Maybe the space in "Program Files" is causing this > problem? But then again the installation worked fine for at > least 15 other PCs where the data base data was in C:\Program Files. > > Don't know what's going on here. Do you by any chance have a directory called "C:\Program"? That would be present on this machine and not the others? //Magnus