Error 29528:...error installing performance counters. Access is denied

• sambaram

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  July 11, 2010 at 11:20 pm

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  Hi

  I am trying to install 64bit SQL Server 2005 on 64bit Windows 2008 R2 server.

  I am getting the following error when trying to install SQL Server 2005.

  Error 29528. The setup has encountered an unexpected error while Installing performance counters. The error is: Access is denied.

  I have attempted to follow MS articles but havent been able to resolve the problem yet.

  Also tried disabling UAC, run the setup.exe using domain admin account, and also did "lodctr /R:PerfStringBackup.INI" . Nothing has worked unfortunately. :crazy:

  Can someone please assist

• glugingboulder

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  May 23, 2011 at 10:21 pm

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  I had fixed my issue which sounded very simular.

  After the Install of SP3 CU9 or in my case SP4 I combed the logs and found errors copying DTS perf ini files which were corrupt.

  1) Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server (x86)\90\DTS\perf-DTSPERF.INI

  2) Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\DTS\Binn\perf-MSSQLSERVERDTSPERF.INI

  I deleted the above files a recreated them with the contents from:

  1) Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server (x86)\90\DTS\DTSPERF.INI

  2) Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\DTS\Binn\DTSPERF.INI

  peer the corresponding numbers with files

  Rerun the service pack again, maybe unique to my situation

  Good luck