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Hi everyone, so its my first time downloading SSMS and SQL Server. I have download the SSMS, but when I tried download SQL Server it always error. I have tried to re-install, deleted all SQL Server r...
Possible causes:
- Run the setup.exe as administrator in case you haven't done this.
- Corrupted Installation file so redownload and/or do a checksum.
Check this log to see if you can find more information, which is mentioned in the summary.txt file?
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\160\Setup\Bootstrap\Log\20250108_213759\sql_engine_core_inst_Cpu64_1.log
Also have a look at this, known issue with installing SQL on Windows 11: Troubleshooting operating system disk sector size greater than 4 KB - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn