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# Native client cannot be found while installing SQL Server 64
- URL: https://blog.tsd.digital/native-client-cannot-be-found-while-installing-sql-server-64/
- Published: 2008-05-14T19:03:44.000Z
- Updated: 2008-05-14T19:03:44.000Z
- Author: Tim Gaunt
- Tags: Windows, SQL Server, The Site Doctor, #Import 2025-04-01 05:37

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 We're having fun and games with the new internal dev server. We've got for Windows Server 2008 x64 for a laugh and today was a corker, while trying to install SQL Server 2005 x64 onto the box we repeatedly got an error along the lines of "native client cannot be found sqlncli\_x64.msi".

Searching around the install DVD/files didn't reveal anything useful, turns out (after a little Googeling) that Microsoft install the wrong version of the SQL Server Native client tools as part of the prerequisites -instead of the 64bit version you'd expect, they go and install the 32bit which then makes the rest of the installer complain...

Classic! Anyway, thanks to [Eric Falsken](http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=447469&SiteID=1&ref=blog.tsd.digital) for the heads up on that error...