{"id":82,"date":"2012-08-21T11:21:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T11:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techsupport.relyonsoft.in\/?p=82"},"modified":"2014-06-11T06:04:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T06:04:53","slug":"there-was-an-unexpected-failure-during-the-setup-wizard-you-may-review-the-setup-logs-andor-click-the-help-button-for-more-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relyonsoft.in\/techsupport\/there-was-an-unexpected-failure-during-the-setup-wizard-you-may-review-the-setup-logs-andor-click-the-help-button-for-more-information\/","title":{"rendered":"There was an unexpected failure during the setup wizard. You may review the setup logs and\\or click the help button for more information."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Error:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>There was an unexpected failure during the setup wizard. You may review the setup logs and\\or click the help button for more information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Error Message:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techsupport.relyonsoft.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/SqlServer-Setup-Failed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-606\" title=\"SqlServer Setup Failed\" src=\"http:\/\/techsupport.relyonsoft.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/SqlServer-Setup-Failed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relyonsoft.in\/techsupport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/SqlServer-Setup-Failed.jpg 456w, https:\/\/relyonsoft.in\/techsupport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/SqlServer-Setup-Failed-300x65.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Causes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Logged on user may not be an Administrator.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure you are running the setup as Administrator.<\/li>\n<li>Windows management instrumentation service might be corrupted.<\/li>\n<li>Improper uninstallation of SQL Server. Completely remove all the remaining components of previous installations SQL Server and then reinstall.\u00a0Use Windows Installer cleanup utility.<\/li>\n<li>These errors occur when the Windows installer cannot have sufficient permission to run the installation.<\/li>\n<li>These errors occur when the Windows installer cannot create, read, or write the necessary entries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Workaround 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Log off current user and logged in as Administrator. Make sure that you are running the SQL Server setup as administrator.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>Workaround<\/strong> 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p title=\"WmiFix\">Download the attached<strong title=\"WmiFix\">\u00a0<\/strong>file and execute the batch<strong title=\"WmiFix\"> <\/strong>file.<\/p>\n<p>Re-install SQL server express 2005 again.<\/p>\n<p>Download:<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/w4eesf8v26d7l9d\/SqlWmiFix.bat\" target=\"_blank\">SqlWmiFix.bat<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>Workaround<\/strong> 3:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Modify the registry entry:<\/p>\n<p>Click Start | Run | type regedit | Click OK.<\/p>\n<p>Navigate to:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;HKEY_USERS\\S-1-518\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\User Shell Folders&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Right click on AppData | Click on Modify and type &#8220;%USERPROFILE%\\Application Data&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Click OK.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>Workaround<\/strong> 4:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Modify the registry entry:<\/p>\n<p>Click Start | Run | type regedit | Click OK.<\/p>\n<p>Navigate to:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\User Shell Folders&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Right click on AppData | Click on Modify and type &#8220;%USERPROFILE%\\Application Data&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Click OK.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>Workaround<\/strong> 5:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Remove SQL Server 2005 completely from Control panel<\/p>\n<p>Control Panel | Add or Remove Programs | Microsoft SQL Server 2005<\/p>\n<p>In the first dialog, make sure to select the &#8220;RELYONDB: Database Engine&#8221; radio button.<\/p>\n<p>If RELYONDB is the only instance, then select all check boxes &amp; Click Next and Finish to proceed with the uninstall.<\/p>\n<p>If there is no other SQL instance, I would go on to clean out all SQL components with the following steps.<\/p>\n<p>Uninstall Microsoft SQL Server Native client<\/p>\n<p>Uninstall Microsoft SQL Server Setup support files<\/p>\n<p>Uninstall Microsoft SQL Server VSS writer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Error: There was an unexpected failure during the setup wizard. You may review the setup logs and\\or click the help button for more information. Error Message: Causes: Logged on user may not be an Administrator. Make sure you are running the setup as Administrator. Windows management instrumentation service might be corrupted. Improper uninstallation of SQL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/relyonsoft.in\/techsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/relyonsoft.in\/techsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/relyonsoft.in\/techsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relyonsoft.in\/techsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relyonsoft.in\/techsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/relyonsoft.in\/techsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/relyonsoft.in\/techsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relyonsoft.in\/techsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relyonsoft.in\/techsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}