I have been googling and attempting to install this software for 2 days now.
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Everything i try the software fails to install. Microsoft wants 600 to trouble shoot that?! that is insane. If i didn't know how to set it up or something pertaining to how to use it i understand but if the software wont even install then i think that extremely unacceptable.
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so i uninstalled it. deleted all folders. removed registry keys pertaining to it and the uninstall registry keys. restart server 2012 R2 and attempt to reinstall and every time it fails. i get a message that sql server crashed and the error log has
Feature: Database Engine Services Status: Failed: see logs for details Reason for failure: An error occurred during the setup process of the feature. Next Step: Use the following information to resolve the error, uninstall this feature, and then run the setup process again. Component name: SQL Server Database Engine Services Instance Features Component error code: 0x851A001A Error description: Wait on the Database Engine recovery handle failed. Check the SQL Server error log for potential causes. Error help link: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkId=20476&ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&EvtSrc=setup.rll&EvtID=50000&ProdVer=13.0.1601.5&EvtType=0xD15B4EB2%400x4BDAF9BA%401306%4026&EvtType=0xD15B4EB2%400x4BDAF9BA%401306%4026
everything else passes up to that point. i am the administrator and have domain rights. i checked for full access to the folder by system and my user. i restarted. i tried everything i can think of.
i am installing from remotely using windows remote desktop. not sure if that matters. it is my physical server so i do have access to it.
If i could use anything else i would. Anything any one can tell me would be appreciated.
EDIT:
Was checking the event log and i see some errors about it can't find files. Looking at it it seems that its not looking at where we installed it at.
It should be in D:\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL13.EFW\MSSQL
however it's looking for D:\B\S2\Sources.obj.x86Release\sql\mkmastr\databases\mkmastr.proj\modellog.ldf
So because i didn't do anything special other than chose a directory. That makes me think thier installer is glitched. how do i fix the directories.