I do a lot of builds during the week and once in a blue moon, I select the wrong collation setting But thats not an issue with the following script that will rebuild the master database. Just replace the [] brackes with you own path and set a very strong SA password. start /wait [path to your sql 2005 sofwtare]\setup.exe /qn INSTANCENAME=MSSQLSERVER REINSTALL=SQL_Engine REBUILDDATABASE=1 SAPWD=[Enter a very stong passwrod here] SQLCOLLATION=SQL_Latin1_General_CP850_BIN Use this start /wait setup...

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