i am facing problem in MSSQL 2005 installation

Question

The SQL Server service failed to start. For more information, see the SQL Server Books Online topics, "How to: View SQL Server 2005 Setup Log Files" and "Starting SQL Server Manually."

For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=20476&ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=9.00.1399.06&EvtSrc=setup.rll&EvtID=29503&EvtType=sqlsetuplib%5cservice.cpp%40Do_sqlScript%40sqls%3a%3aService%3a%3aStart%40x42b

This error will shown in istallation of MSSQL 2005 and i am using Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Answer 1

As of now, the hardware and software requirements for the installation of SQL Server 2005, is not listing Windows 8 CP as a supported OS. For more information on that, see here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms143506(v=sql.90).aspx

Could you also provide us the Summary.txt file (c:\program files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup Bootstarp\Log\)?

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Answer 2

there's an explicit note somewhere  that SQL Server 2005 is not supported on Windows 8 CP.

SQL Server Express and Windows 8

only Express edition is explicitly mention but I assume the other edition have the same restriction.

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