Unable to install SQL Server 2019.

Question

Detail.txt Screenshot 2025-01-23 163220.jpgI have tried multiple times and I recieve the same message every time. I have attached a screenshot of the error and the text file it gave me

Answer 1

Hi @Denver Wills

--SqlServerServiceSCM: SQL Server process has died while waiting for SQL Server to start. Process id: 6332

Seems like the issue occurs in the start process. Please check the status information of engine service via the configuration manager.

MSSQL$MSSQLSERVER03

Looks like you have tried some cleanup and reinstall attempts. Please try uninstalling SQL Server completely (How to Uninstall SQL Server) and start new installation. When you reach Server Configuration page, please select NT Authority\System as SQL Server Database Engine service startup account.

Best regards,

Cosmog

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Answer 2

The message Wait on the Database Engine recovery handle failed is a generic error that means that SQL Server did not start when Setup wanted to run configuration steps. To understand why it did not start, you need to look in the SQL Server errorlog, which you find in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL15.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\LOG\ERRORLOG.

If you see a message about 256 misaligned reads, you are running into a known issue where Windows 11 for some disk drives reports a sector size that SQL Server does not cope with. Microsoft has published an article with workarounds for the problem.

If you don't see the message about misaligned reads, feel free to upload the errorlog here, so we can look at it. You will need to rename to ERRORLOG.txt for the forum software to accept it.