Hi Eoin,
I m new at this SDE/SQL stuff and learning as I go. I get my errors at the second window when I go to create Spatial database. When I say make a new folder I mean in the Create in folder option I created a new folder to see if that would fix it. It didn't.
I think my problem is in the strong password that I didn't create when I did the install. Plus I can't log in under the 'sa' account cause I don't know the password either I didn't right it down during the install or something. Since I wrote this tread I been looking how to find my 'sa' password I found it in SQL but it is dotted out but what is strange my password for my 'sde' in SQl that is dotted out also doesn't match my password. So, I'm confused. Is there a default password they put in for you?
So, I need to figure out my 'sa' password before I do anything. So I'm going to do what you suggested to see if it fixes it.
Thanks
Ken