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How to install SQL Server 2022 on Windows 11?

Goga Gate 40 Reputation points
2023-07-25T16:45:15.0433333+00:00

Hi,

I've been trying to install SQL Server 2022 and 2019 on Windows 11. I've been getting the error at the very end of the installation, though. I could not find any definitive answer on how to resolve the issue. Does anyone have an answers to fix this?

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  1. Erland Sommarskog 121.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2023-07-25T17:35:48.0033333+00:00

    The message Wait on the Database Engine recovery handle failed tells us that SQL Server did not start when Setup wanted to run configuration.

    To understand why SQL Server did not start, do as the error message says: check the SQL Server errorlog. You find it C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL15.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\LOG\ERRORLOG, assuming a default installation of SQL 2019.

    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 disk sector size that SQL Server does not support. Microsoft has published an article with workarounds for the problem.If you don't see anything about misaligned reads, feel free to attach the errorlog here. You will need to rename it to ERRORLOG.txt to be able to do that.

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