Failed to connect to database

[KevinKuhn]

Hey all,

I'm a 9.4 beta user and installed ArcGIS 10 Desktop.  I am getting an error when I attempt to open (preview or connect) in arcmap or arccatalog to geodatabases.   "Failed to connect to database. This release of the GeoDatabase is either invalid or out of date. [Invalid Geodatabase release]"

I haven't looked at all of my geodatabases, but the problem seems limited to the geodatabases that I either edited or created using 9.4.   I was able to open a few older (9.2) geodatabases.

I downloaded and installed the geodatabase/sde patch, but this seems irrelevant since my geodatabases are only local, either file or personal, not SDE. 

I also saw this post http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/114-Beta-10-Map-Packages?highlight=Failed+connect+database.+invalid...

which briefly mentions that 9.4 geodatabases created different schema's than that of 9.3...  i had assumed that the full release of ArcGIS 10 would have rectified this incompatibility, or would have at least been able to read the 9.4 version. 

I'm using a 64bit intel, windows 7 machine.

Anyone else having these problems?  Any advice? 

Thanks,
Kevin

[JessicaRivas]

I am new using this software. I just installed the education edition of ArcGIS 10 and was going to do the training course on the esri web page but I got the same error message when I try to use any of the data in the ArcCatalog. Besides, the ArcMap hangs and doesn´t open at all.
What can I do to solve the problem?