Having issues with getting SQL Server Express to start services and run.

Question

Good afternoon everyone,
I have been working on a 2012 R2 server getting ready to move databases to new hardware.  I had SQL Server Express 2008 R2 running on this server with no issues.  I was handed another software package that ran SQL Express 2012 and had to for compatibility
reasons.  I have had multiple versions run on Server 2012 before with no issues.  This time, not so lucky.  When the installer from the updated package put on SQL Express 2012 it completed with errors ( error log posted at the end of post) and
would not allow me to run software.  I then tried the db that I had installed on 2008 R2 and it also gave the  same error as the 2012 version.  IN basic terms the required services attempted to start and shut back down again.  I have received
Error 1068 about database handles and error %%945.   I know this db has plenty of space and the permissions were added for the Admin account to access both db's.  I then uninstalled both versions and tried again, with the same errors listed when
I tried to start the services.     I am thinking that a clean install would fix the issue however I am not certain what files/folders/reg entries need to be deleted or modified.  I have researched all the errors I can find, however I am very
new with SQL anything so I know I am missing something.   I also do not have an "E:" drive on this server (not sure why it is going there). Input would be very welcome as I am not certain where to go from here. 
Thanks,
Matt
Error Log follows, server and domain names have been blacked out with ****.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.16 Server      Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (SP1) - 11.0.3128.0 (X64) 
Dec 28 2012 20:23:12 
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation
Express Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.2 <X64> (Build 9200: ) (Hypervisor)
2015-04-15 11:57:55.16 Server      (c) Microsoft Corporation.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.16 Server      All rights reserved.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.16 Server      Server process ID is 4104.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.16 Server      System Manufacturer: 'HP', System Model: 'ProLiant ML350p Gen8'.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.16 Server      Authentication mode is WINDOWS-ONLY.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.16 Server      Logging SQL Server messages in file 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\Log\ERRORLOG'.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.17 Server      The service account is 'NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE'. This is an informational message; no user action is required.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.17 Server      Registry startup parameters: 
-d C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\DATA\master.mdf
-e C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\Log\ERRORLOG
-l C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\DATA\mastlog.ldf
2015-04-15 11:57:55.17 Server      Command Line Startup Parameters:
-s "SQLEXPRESS"
2015-04-15 11:57:55.48 Server      SQL Server detected 1 sockets with 6 cores per socket and 12 logical processors per socket, 12 total logical processors; using 8 logical processors based on SQL Server licensing. This is an informational message;
no user action is required.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.48 Server      SQL Server is starting at normal priority base (=7). This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.48 Server      Detected 8157 MB of RAM. This is an informational message; no user action is required.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.48 Server      Using conventional memory in the memory manager.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.68 Server      This instance of SQL Server last reported using a process ID of 7840 at 4/15/2015 11:57:47 AM (local) 4/15/2015 3:57:47 PM (UTC). This is an informational message only; no user action is required.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.68 Server      Node configuration: node 0: CPU mask: 0x00000000000000ff:0 Active CPU mask: 0x00000000000000ff:0. This message provides a description of the NUMA configuration for this computer. This is an informational message
only. No user action is required.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.69 Server      Using dynamic lock allocation.  Initial allocation of 2500 Lock blocks and 5000 Lock Owner blocks per node.  This is an informational message only.  No user action is required.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.72 Server      Software Usage Metrics is disabled.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.73 spid5s      Starting up database 'master'.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.79 spid5s      20 transactions rolled forward in database 'master' (1:0). This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.79 spid5s      0 transactions rolled back in database 'master' (1:0). This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.80 Server      CLR version v4.0.30319 loaded.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.86 spid5s      Service Master Key could not be decrypted using one of its encryptions. See sys.key_encryptions for details.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.89 Server      Common language runtime (CLR) functionality initialized using CLR version v4.0.30319 from C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.91 spid5s      SQL Server Audit is starting the audits. This is an informational message. No user action is required.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.91 spid5s      SQL Server Audit has started the audits. This is an informational message. No user action is required.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.94 spid5s      SQL Trace ID 1 was started by login "sa".
2015-04-15 11:57:55.94 spid5s      Server name is '********\SQLEXPRESS'. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.96 spid5s      Failed to verify Authenticode signature on DLL 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\Binn\ftimport.dll'.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.96 spid5s      Starting up database 'msdb'.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.96 spid9s      Starting up database 'mssqlsystemresource'.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.96 spid5s      Error: 17204, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.96 spid5s      FCB::Open failed: Could not open file e:\sql11_main_t.obj.x86release\sql\mkmastr\databases\objfre\i386\MSDBData.mdf for file number 1.  OS error: 3(The system cannot find the path specified.).
2015-04-15 11:57:55.96 spid5s      Error: 5120, Severity: 16, State: 101.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.96 spid5s      Unable to open the physical file "e:\sql11_main_t.obj.x86release\sql\mkmastr\databases\objfre\i386\MSDBData.mdf". Operating system error 3: "3(The system cannot find the path specified.)".
2015-04-15 11:57:55.96 spid5s      Error: 17207, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.96 spid5s      FileMgr::StartLogFiles: Operating system error 2(The system cannot find the file specified.) occurred while creating or opening file 'e:\sql11_main_t.obj.x86release\sql\mkmastr\databases\objfre\i386\MSDBLog.ldf'.
Diagnose and correct the operating system error, and retry the operation.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.96 spid5s      File activation failure. The physical file name "e:\sql11_main_t.obj.x86release\sql\mkmastr\databases\objfre\i386\MSDBLog.ldf" may be incorrect.
2015-04-15 11:57:55.99 spid9s      The resource database build version is 11.00.3000. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2015-04-15 11:57:56.02 spid12s     A self-generated certificate was successfully loaded for encryption.
2015-04-15 11:57:56.03 spid12s     Server is listening on [ 'any' <ipv6> 53345].
2015-04-15 11:57:56.03 spid12s     Server is listening on [ 'any' <ipv4> 53345].
2015-04-15 11:57:56.03 spid12s     Server local connection provider is ready to accept connection on [ \\.\pipe\SQLLocal\SQLEXPRESS ].
2015-04-15 11:57:56.03 spid12s     Server named pipe provider is ready to accept connection on [ \\.\pipe\MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS\sql\query ].
2015-04-15 11:57:56.04 spid12s     Dedicated administrator connection support was not started because it is disabled on this edition of SQL Server. If you want to use a dedicated administrator connection, restart SQL Server using the trace flag 7806.
This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2015-04-15 11:57:56.04 Server      SQL Server is attempting to register a Service Principal Name (SPN) for the SQL Server service. Kerberos authentication will not be possible until a SPN is registered for the SQL Server service. This is an informational
message. No user action is required.
2015-04-15 11:57:56.04 Server      The SQL Server Network Interface library could not register the Service Principal Name (SPN) [ MSSQLSvc/********.****.local:SQLEXPRESS ] for the SQL Server service. Windows return code: 0xffffffff, state: 53.
Failure to register a SPN might cause integrated authentication to use NTLM instead of Kerberos. This is an informational message. Further action is only required if Kerberos authentication is required by authentication policies and if the SPN has not been
manually registered.
2015-04-15 11:57:56.04 Server      The SQL Server Network Interface library could not register the Service Principal Name (SPN) [ MSSQLSvc/********.****.local:53345 ] for the SQL Server service. Windows return code: 0xffffffff, state: 53. Failure
to register a SPN might cause integrated authentication to use NTLM instead of Kerberos. This is an informational message. Further action is only required if Kerberos authentication is required by authentication policies and if the SPN has not been manually
registered.
2015-04-15 11:57:56.09 spid9s      Starting up database 'model'.
2015-04-15 11:57:56.10 spid9s      Error: 17204, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2015-04-15 11:57:56.10 spid9s      FCB::Open failed: Could not open file e:\sql11_main_t.obj.x86release\sql\mkmastr\databases\objfre\i386\model.mdf for file number 1.  OS error: 3(The system cannot find the path specified.).
2015-04-15 11:57:56.10 spid9s      Error: 5120, Severity: 16, State: 101.
2015-04-15 11:57:56.10 spid9s      Unable to open the physical file "e:\sql11_main_t.obj.x86release\sql\mkmastr\databases\objfre\i386\model.mdf". Operating system error 3: "3(The system cannot find the path specified.)".
2015-04-15 11:57:56.10 spid9s      Error: 17207, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2015-04-15 11:57:56.10 spid9s      FileMgr::StartLogFiles: Operating system error 2(The system cannot find the file specified.) occurred while creating or opening file 'e:\sql11_main_t.obj.x86release\sql\mkmastr\databases\objfre\i386\modellog.ldf'.
Diagnose and correct the operating system error, and retry the operation.
2015-04-15 11:57:56.10 spid9s      File activation failure. The physical file name "e:\sql11_main_t.obj.x86release\sql\mkmastr\databases\objfre\i386\modellog.ldf" may be incorrect.
2015-04-15 11:57:56.10 spid9s      Error: 945, Severity: 14, State: 2.
2015-04-15 11:57:56.10 spid9s      Database 'model' cannot be opened due to inaccessible files or insufficient memory or disk space.  See the SQL Server errorlog for details.
2015-04-15 11:57:56.10 spid9s      SQL Trace was stopped due to server shutdown. Trace ID = '1'. This is an informational message only; no user action is required.


Answer 1

Hi HMLunger,
Did you install the SQL Server instance successfully? If not, please help to post the summary and detail logs for analysis. By default, the logs can be found in: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Setup Bootstrap\Log.
However, if you fail to start SQL Server Express service after successfully installing SQL Server,
you might have to change the paths of the files by running the following scripts from the command prompt. For more details, please review this similar
thread.
NET START MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS /f /T3608
SQLCMD -S .\SQLEXPRESS
ALTER DATABASE model MODIFY FILE (NAME = logical_name , FILENAME = 'new_path\os_file_name');
ALTER DATABASE model MODIFY FILE (NAME = logical_name , FILENAME = 'new_path\os_file_name');
go
exit;
ALTER DATABASE msdb MODIFY FILE (NAME = logical_name , FILENAME = 'new_path\os_file_name');
ALTER DATABASE msdb MODIFY FILE (NAME = logical_name , FILENAME = 'new_path\os_file_name');
NET STOP MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS
In addition, you can follow the steps in this KB article to uninstall SQL Server.
Thanks,
Lydia Zhang
Lydia Zhang
TechNet Community Support