I can't install SQL Server 2022 Express Edition in my workspace laptop Windows 11

Question

I added the screenshot of my error log, please solve this error.

Answer 1

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.SQLEXPRESSMSSQL\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.

Answer 2

Hi,Mohamed Zamil

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A fourm!

Is this the first time you're installing SQL Server on this device? Or have you installed it several times before and it has failed?

The specific path to the error log is C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\160\Setup Bootstrap\Log. A new folder named with a timestamp is created each time an installation is attempted. The file detail.txt within these folders records the error details. You can post this file, and we can help you analyze it.

Additionally, this article discusses a known issue with installing SQL Server on Windows 11, which is due to the disk drive model, and you can modify the registry to fix this issue.

Regards

Mikey Qiao

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Answer 3

The screenshot is useless.

Do what the error message says: "Check the SQL Server error log for potential causes."

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/tools/configuration-manager/viewing-the-sql-server-error-log?view=sql-server-ver16