Install SQL 2008 on Windows 7

Question

Hello,
I recently upgraded my os from vista home edition to windows 7 home edition and now attempting to install SQL Server 2008 but receiving the following error message:
"Failed to open registry key SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.<InstanceName>\MSSQLServer\SuperSocketNetLib or set its security descriptor"
In Summary log of the Setup Bootstrap, the installation is still picking up the previous OS.
Here are the measures I have taken to resolve the issue but to no avail:
- Install SP1 Cumulative Pack 4
- Ensure the windows accounts have the appropriate permissions to the Registry key, SuperSocketNetLib
- created a new windows admin account and ran the installation under Admin account
- disabled firewall and anti-virus s/w
- tried installing SP Cumulative Pack 8 but received error message that installation failed due to previous installation failure. Cumulative Pack 4 installed fine.
I have Visual Studio 2008 SP1 installed on the same machine.
Could the installation picking up the previous OS be the issue?
Any help is appreciated
jim

Answer 1

Hi Sam,
Thanks for the reply. It is appreciated. Unfortunately, I am running the Home edition of Windows 7, so ADUC is not available. However, I was able to locate the function "ReplaceAccountWithSidInSddl" in the Detail log and as you suggested, it appears that
the the service account the function is attempting to use the culprit. I granted Full control to the account for the registry key. Here's a snippet of the error in the log. I have replace the name of computer with <COMPUTER_NAME>:
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp: Sco: Attempting to replace account with sid in security descriptor D:(A;CI;KRKW;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1016)(A;CI;KR;;;[SQLServer2005SQLBrowserUser$<COMPUTER_NAME>])(A;CI;KR;;;BU)
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp: ReplaceAccountWithSidInSddl -- SDDL to be processed: 
D:(A;CI;KRKW;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1016)(A;CI;KR;;;[SQLServer2005SQLBrowserUser$<COMPUTER_NAME>])(A;CI;KR;;;BU)
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp: Sco: Account name to be translated into SID: SQLServer2005SQLBrowserUser$<COMPUTER_NAME>
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp: Sco: Attempting to get account sid for user account SQLServer2005SQLBrowserUser$JAMES-PC
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp: Sco: Attempting to get sid for user account SQLServer2005SQLBrowserUser$<COMPUTER_NAME>
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp: Sco: GetSidForAccount normalized accountName SQLServer2005SQLBrowserUser$<COMPUTER_NAME> parameter to SQLServer2005SQLBrowserUser$<COMPUTER_NAME>
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp: Sco: Account name is translated into: S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1001
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp: Sco: Final security descriptor:  D:(A;CI;KRKW;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1016)(A;CI;KR;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1001)(A;CI;KR;;;BU)
2014-03-21 11:30:48 SQLEngine: Output SDDL D:(A;CI;KRKW;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1016)(A;CI;KR;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1001)(A;CI;KR;;;BU).
2014-03-21 11:30:48 SQLEngine: Leaving Function NLRegSSetting.ReplaceSddlTags.
2014-03-21 11:30:48 SQLEngine: Entering Function NLRegSSetting.SetSecurityDescriptor.
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp: Sco: Attempting to create base registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, machine
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp: Sco: Attempting to open registry subkey SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.<INSTANCE_NAME>\MSSQLServer\SuperSocketNetLib
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp: Sco: Attempting to replace account with sid in security descriptor D:(A;CI;KRKW;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1016)(A;CI;KR;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1001)(A;CI;KR;;;BU)
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp: ReplaceAccountWithSidInSddl -- SDDL to be processed: 
D:(A;CI;KRKW;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1016)(A;CI;KR;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1001)(A;CI;KR;;;BU)
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp: ReplaceAccountWithSidInSddl -- SDDL to be returned: 
D:(A;CI;KRKW;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1016)(A;CI;KR;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1001)(A;CI;KR;;;BU)
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp: Sco: Attempting to set security descriptor D:(A;CI;KRKW;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1016)(A;CI;KR;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1001)(A;CI;KR;;;BU)
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp: Sco: Attempting to normalize security descriptor D:(A;CI;KRKW;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1016)(A;CI;KR;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1001)(A;CI;KR;;;BU)
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp: Sco: Attempting to replace account with sid in security descriptor D:(A;CI;KRKW;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1016)(A;CI;KR;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1001)(A;CI;KR;;;BU)
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp: ReplaceAccountWithSidInSddl -- SDDL to be processed: 
D:(A;CI;KRKW;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1016)(A;CI;KR;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1001)(A;CI;KR;;;BU)
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp: ReplaceAccountWithSidInSddl -- SDDL to be returned: 
D:(A;CI;KRKW;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1016)(A;CI;KR;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1001)(A;CI;KR;;;BU)
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp: Sco: Attempting to normalize security descriptor D:(A;CI;KRKW;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1016)(A;CI;KR;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1001)(A;CI;KR;;;BU)
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp: Sco: Attempting to replace account with sid in security descriptor D:(A;CI;KRKW;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1016)(A;CI;KR;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1001)(A;CI;KR;;;BU)
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp: ReplaceAccountWithSidInSddl -- SDDL to be processed: 
D:(A;CI;KRKW;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1016)(A;CI;KR;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1001)(A;CI;KR;;;BU)
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp: ReplaceAccountWithSidInSddl -- SDDL to be returned: 
D:(A;CI;KRKW;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1016)(A;CI;KR;;;S-1-5-21-1616483530-113107344-425543671-1001)(A;CI;KR;;;BU)
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp: Prompting user if they want to retry this action due to the following failure:
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp: ----------------------------------------
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp: The following is an exception stack listing the exceptions in outermost to innermost order
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp: Inner exceptions are being indented
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp:
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp: Exception type: Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Sco.ScoException
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp:     Message:
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp:        
Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation.
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp:     Data:
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp:       WatsonData = SuperSocketNetLib
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp:       DisableRetry = true
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp:     Inner exception type: System.UnauthorizedAccessException
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp:        
Message:
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp:                
Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation.
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp:         Stack:
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp:                
at System.Security.AccessControl.Win32.GetSecurityInfo(ResourceType resourceType, String name, SafeHandle handle, AccessControlSections accessControlSections, RawSecurityDescriptor& resultSd)
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp:                
at System.Security.AccessControl.NativeObjectSecurity.CreateInternal(ResourceType resourceType, Boolean isContainer, String name, SafeHandle handle, AccessControlSections includeSections, Boolean createByName, ExceptionFromErrorCode exceptionFromErrorCode,
Object exceptionContext)
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp:                
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Sco.SqlRegistrySecurity..ctor(ResourceType resourceType, SafeRegistryHandle handle, AccessControlSections includeSections)
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp:                
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Sco.SqlRegistrySecurity.Create(InternalRegistryKey key)
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp:                
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Sco.InternalRegistryKey.GetAccessControl()
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp:                
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Sco.InternalRegistryKey.SetSecurityDescriptor(String sddl, Boolean overwrite)
2014-03-21 11:30:48 Slp: ----------------------------------------<COMPUTER_NAME>
The service account being used in from SQL 2005 Express that was installed via VS 2008.
Help is appreciated.
jim