Yes, I did stop by hitting Ctrl-C. I don't remember now whether I tried to connect to it locally before 20:37 (it's been several days, our ISP was down)....

Thanks for your help. Here is how I got some error log data to work with.

I tried starting SQL Server from the command prompt like this (somebody suggested I...

I tried renaming the AdventureWorks files but that didn't make any difference, so I moved them all to another folder altogether. There is still no difference - I can't...

Thank you so much for your response! I really want to get this working.

Here is errorlog. There is no errorlog from today. This is from yesterday. I'll...