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I've installed it numerous times on Window 8 without issue. Are you running as system admin on your machine? Does your machine have the latest service packs applied? Have you run a recent virus check? Do you have corruption on your disk or within your registry (noticing registry key errors). You should further explore the output logs from the install process because I'm sure they'll specify a more complete error message. Also look at the system logs within the OS to see if there are indications there why this is going wrong. It absolutely works. There's no real magic to the install beyond ensuring that you do whatever the installation checks require of you as they specify it within the installation wizard. It's quite straight-forward. That means the problem is probably outside the basic install process.

Hi Thank you very much for your responses Please refer the screen shot of the error message. 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: Sco: GetSidForAccount normalized accountName SQLServer2005SQLBrowserUser$MAHARAJ parameter to SQLServer2005SQLBrowserUser$MAHARAJ 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: Sco: Account name is translated into: S-1-5-21-3626891104-875001073-836178829-1046 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: Sco: Final security descriptor: (A;CI;KR;;;S-1-5-21-3626891104-875001073-836178829-1046) 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: Sco: Attempting to set security descriptor (A;CI;KR;;;S-1-5-21-3626891104-875001073-836178829-1046) 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: Sco: Attempting to normalize security descriptor (A;CI;KR;;;S-1-5-21-3626891104-875001073-836178829-1046) 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: Sco: Adding 'D:' DACL identifier to the input security descriptor (A;CI;KR;;;S-1-5-21-3626891104-875001073-836178829-1046) 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: Sco: Attempting to replace account with sid in security descriptor D:(A;CI;KR;;;S-1-5-21-3626891104-875001073-836178829-1046) 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: ReplaceAccountWithSidInSddl -- SDDL to be processed: D:(A;CI;KR;;;S-1-5-21-3626891104-875001073-836178829-1046) 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: ReplaceAccountWithSidInSddl -- SDDL to be returned: D:(A;CI;KR;;;S-1-5-21-3626891104-875001073-836178829-1046) 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: Sco: Attempting to normalize security descriptor D:(A;CI;KR;;;S-1-5-21-3626891104-875001073-836178829-1046) 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: Sco: Attempting to replace account with sid in security descriptor D:(A;CI;KR;;;S-1-5-21-3626891104-875001073-836178829-1046) 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: ReplaceAccountWithSidInSddl -- SDDL to be processed: D:(A;CI;KR;;;S-1-5-21-3626891104-875001073-836178829-1046) 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: ReplaceAccountWithSidInSddl -- SDDL to be returned: D:(A;CI;KR;;;S-1-5-21-3626891104-875001073-836178829-1046) 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: Prompting user if they want to retry this action due to the following failure: 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: ---------------------------------------- 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: The following is an exception stack listing the exceptions in outermost to innermost order 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: Inner exceptions are being indented 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: Exception type: Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Sco.ScoException 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: Message: 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation. 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: Data: 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: WatsonData = Microsoft SQL Server 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: DisableRetry = true 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: Inner exception type: System.UnauthorizedAccessException 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: Message: 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation. 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: Stack: 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: at System.Security.AccessControl.Win32.GetSecurityInfo(ResourceType resourceType, String name, SafeHandle handle, AccessControlSections accessControlSections, RawSecurityDescriptor& resultSd) 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: at System.Security.AccessControl.NativeObjectSecurity.CreateInternal(ResourceType resourceType, Boolean isContainer, String name, SafeHandle handle, AccessControlSections includeSections, Boolean createByName, ExceptionFromErrorCode exceptionFromErrorCode, Object exceptionContext) 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Sco.SqlRegistrySecurity.Create(InternalRegistryKey key) 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Sco.InternalRegistryKey.SetSecurityDescriptor(String sddl, Boolean overwrite) 2013-10-27 01:03:09 Slp: ----------------------------------------

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The key word and tricky phrase is UnauthorizedAccessException. It sure looks like a security issue. But, just in case, you should check that the version of SQL Server you're trying to install is supported by your OS. If you're trying to install Enterprise on Windows 8, it won't work. [You can check all this out here.][1] [1]: http://The+key+word+and+tricky+phrase+is+UnauthorizedAccessException.+It+sure+looks+like+a+security+issue.+But,+just+in+case,+yo