SQL Server 2022 Developer Edition Installation Issue

Goga Gate 40 Reputation points
2024-12-11T10:43:44.03+00:00

I am trying to install SQL Server 2022 Developer Edition and at the end I always receives this error. What could be a fix for it?

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  1. Erland Sommarskog 121.9K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2024-12-11T22:11:42.7366667+00:00

    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\MSSQL16.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.

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  1. ZoeHui-MSFT 41,496 Reputation points
    2024-12-12T06:23:58.11+00:00

    Hi @Goga Gate Please check the error log for details.

    Viewing the SQL Server Error Log

    If you are using Windows11, it will highly be a known issue as Erland mentioned, you may try the workaround.

    If these all do not work, you may have a try with this blog.

    Regards,

    Zoe Hui


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