March 7, 2010
Posted by Ye Myat
MSDNAA: Servers down?
Update: Now there’s a notice saying there are maintenance going on at 7AM EST.
Update2: Now it seems MSDNAA is up again. Just re-download the downloader and begin the download. No error for me.
I’ve been trying to install MS SQL Server 2008 with the installer from MSDN Academic Alliance (MSDNAA) but it keep on giving me error “The drive root is not a valid location” no matter which location I chose. According to this site, they said MSDNAA will be down until further notice. Seems I gotta try again in tomorrow morning.
MSDNAA is for colleges and schools allowing students to download Microsoft products such as Windows, Visual Studio, Office, MS SQL Servers and so on for educational use for free.
15 Comments
March 7, 2010
I have the same problem. You can’t download anything today.
March 7, 2010
The site you link to is irrelevant to today’s problem.
March 7, 2010
I’ve had the same problem. So whats the reason for this?
March 7, 2010
No idea. Seems we just have wait and try again.
March 7, 2010
arrrrrrr.. for me the same.. shit. Thanks for your post
I didN’t see it on the MSDNAA page but Google indexed you already! 
March 7, 2010
Same problem with me.
March 7, 2010
Same problem here. What the heck?
March 7, 2010
Ahh.. got the same error. At least now I know I am not alone.
March 7, 2010
Noooo..we’re not alone ^.^
March 8, 2010
Guys, it seems working again. Just re-download the downloader and it works!
March 8, 2010
Is it just me or the server is terrible now? My download is completely stuck!
March 10, 2010
Stuck at 19 %
March 10, 2010
Mine stuck at CRC check. I took a copy from a friend. Much faster =)
April 4, 2010
Today I read “The site will be going down for maintenance at 07:00 (EST). Please complete any transactions or work before this time to ensure that you do not lose any information.”
What is this?
April 4, 2010
I guess they’re doing the maintenance again.
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