Restoring master db from old install of different SQL version

All,
I had to downgrade from Enterprise to Standard on a server. So I took
backups of all DB's, uninstalled enterprise and installed standard with
SP3a. Then I restored all user DB's.
I then wanted to use the master from enterprise and install into standard so
I would keep users and passwords etc. We have apps that use users like
SalesAppUser with a password hardly anyone knows. So I just wanted a nice
plain replace new master with old master.
Thanks to Robert Davies who helped me get to the command line prompt for
opening up the server in single user mode. I then restored master from the
previous backup and server no longer functions.
I just want to confirm that is what you would expect from one install to
another. Reading back it now looks like I was trying to put the square piece
through the round hole !!
Any suggestions for how I might achieve my goal?
Thanks
MPM
Hi
If logins/passwords are the only things you need to keep then you may want
to look at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/246133/
Good overall references are:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224071/EN-US/
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q314546
John
"MANCPOLYMAN" <MANCPOLYMAN@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> All,
> I had to downgrade from Enterprise to Standard on a server. So I took
> backups of all DB's, uninstalled enterprise and installed standard with
> SP3a. Then I restored all user DB's.
> I then wanted to use the master from enterprise and install into standard
> so
> I would keep users and passwords etc. We have apps that use users like
> SalesAppUser with a password hardly anyone knows. So I just wanted a nice
> plain replace new master with old master.
> Thanks to Robert Davies who helped me get to the command line prompt for
> opening up the server in single user mode. I then restored master from
> the
> previous backup and server no longer functions.
> I just want to confirm that is what you would expect from one install to
> another. Reading back it now looks like I was trying to put the square
> piece
> through the round hole !!
> Any suggestions for how I might achieve my goal?
> Thanks
> MPM