Shawn Melton (10/29/2013)
The error provided is not associated with SQL Server Agent not starting, you normally see it when trying to start the SQL Server Service.You will likely find that the SQL Server service for this instance is probably not running. Which that is going to prevent SQL Server Agent from starting as it has a dependency.
That's exactly had happened with my server. Once I restarted SQL Server Services through services.msc, Agent also worked fine.