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I tried most of the methods told here... The only one that worked was turning off my anti-virus (Kaspersky)! The moment I paused it, the status bar flew!
Stuck when installing SQL Server 2022 Express Edition
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Lưu Chí Thịnh
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When installing SQL Server 2022 Express Edition, I always get stuck at "Running Action: SqlEngineDBStartConfigAction_install_configrc_Cpu64" as shown in the picture. I've tried a few things but it still stucks at this point in the installation process.
After awhile, it shows the following error message:
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LiHongMSFT-4306 31,566 Reputation points2023-10-10T02:33:42.8233333+00:00 Hi @Lưu Chí Thịnh
Please post the error logs.
The location by default is: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\160\Setup Bootstrap\Log
There is a summary.txt file and many subfolders created every time the Installation wizard is started. In those subfolders, we can find a Detail.txt file.
View and Read SQL Server Setup Log Files - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn
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Uday Krishna Ravella 40 Reputation points2024-06-13T13:46:06.27+00:00 -
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Zeynel Öztürk 0 Reputation points2024-07-09T20:53:15.7566667+00:00 Exactly, suspending Kaspersky worked right away.
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Jeison 0 Reputation points2024-09-06T11:48:28.0633333+00:00 Thanks
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Yohann Vila 5 Reputation points2025-04-02T12:39:40.24+00:00 Same problem here with McAfee, installng SQL Server 2022 Developer Edition. Turned off real time scan (+ also turned off the extra firewall - just in case), and the install went through after a few seconds of delay.
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Erland Sommarskog 121.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator2023-10-09T21:11:22.1166667+00:00 The message about the Database engine startup handle is a generic message which tells us that SQL Server did not start when Setup wanted to run configuration.
To understand why SQL Server did not start, you need to look in the SQL Server error log, which you find in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL16.SQLEXPRESS\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 disk-sector size that SQL Server cannot cope with. Microsoft has published an article with workarounds.