Unavailable database

Hi!

I'm a newbie with Firebird, and on my ftrst install on an XP machine, everything was well, with FB running as a service. Yesterday, I was cleaning out my box and I uninstalled several apps. Since early this morning (about 1AM, local tim), I couldn't connect to my local database, with the error "unavailable database" given by the FB ODBC config in the control panel. Thinking that it might be a side effect of the uninstallation of several apps, I proceeded to uninstall FBServer & the FBODBC component then reinstalled it. The same problem came up. When I used isql to try and connect to the database, I get the same error, and got the error code -904.

I can't (and at this point, will not) reformat my drive and reinstall Windows (as I have read in some other post), so could someone kindly help me "reconnect" to my database?

Thanks.

Cheers!

UPDATE

Hi again! I finally found a solution that worked for me; here goes:

1) Uninstall FireBird (server + other components, in my case the FireBird ODBC driver)
2) Download the .ZIP "installer" of FireBird (if you haven't done it yet.
3) While downloading the said .ZIP "installer," clean out your registry.
4) After download & registry cleanup is complete, UNZIP the FireBird archive to the default installation folder (<drive>\Program Files\FireBird\FireBird_1_5, where drive is of course, the system drive).
5) From the bin folder, run either the install_classic.bat or install_server.bat to install the FireBird server. Running either batch file will then add the necessary registry values to allow you to access your FireBird databases.

Hope this helps.

'm having the same problem.. did this solution work for you.

What does it mean to "clear the registry"? Also, I don't have any bat file in the bin folder.