Can someone Please assist me with this issue?

Question

I post an issue back on Thursday, July 19, 2012

See: My Issue

Could someone Please Assist me?

Comment, Suggestion????

Thank You

Joseph

Answer 1

Hello,

Please try to uninstall remnants of previous installation attempts of SQL Server 2008 R2 using the following articles, and then try to install again:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143412(v=sql.105).aspx

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sqlexpress/thread/4d6158a1-b601-428c-aad4-a1716e76de1a (YoYo Yu -  August 23, 2010)   

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Alberto Morillo
SQLCoffee.com

Answer 2

Alberto,

         I have tried to uninstall, receive a dialog box:

"TITLE: SQL Server Setup failure.
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SQL Server Setup has encountered the following error:

The given key was not present in the dictionary..

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BUTTONS:

OK
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Please advise?

Joseph

Answer 3

Can you go to setup media and try running

setup.exe /Action=Uninstall

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Ahmed Ibrahim
SQL Server Setup Team
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Answer 4

Hello,

Please manually uninstall using the second link I posted above.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Alberto Morillo
SQLCoffee.com

Answer 5

Ahmed,

        Tried and received the same;

SQL Server Setup has encountered the following error:

The given key was not present in the dictionary..

Answer 6

Hi Joseph,

Any progress?

It may be caused by the unwanted keys in registry. You could take registry backup and removed unwanted keys. Then install SQL Server 2008 R2 again.

Delete the following keys in regedit:
    --HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server
    --HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSSQLServer
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall and delete all the sub-keys referencing SQL Server.
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services and delete all the keys referencing SQL Server.

SQL Server 2008 installation fails when you try to install SQL Server a second time: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955404.

If you have any problem, please feel free to let me know.

Thanks,
Maggie

 

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