Comments on: SQL SERVER – Fix : Error: 15372 Failed to generate a ser instance od SQL Server due to a failure in starting the process for the user instance. The connection will be closed http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/06/08/sql-server-fix-error-15372-failed-to-generate-a-ser-instance-od-sql-server-due-to-a-failure-in-starting-the-process-for-the-user-instance-the-connection-will-be-closed/ Personal Notes of Pinal Dave Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:36:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: RaeesMR http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/06/08/sql-server-fix-error-15372-failed-to-generate-a-ser-instance-od-sql-server-due-to-a-failure-in-starting-the-process-for-the-user-instance-the-connection-will-be-closed/#comment-242944 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:13:22 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=5439#comment-242944 thanks…it works well for me toooo……

]]> By: Nathan http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/06/08/sql-server-fix-error-15372-failed-to-generate-a-ser-instance-od-sql-server-due-to-a-failure-in-starting-the-process-for-the-user-instance-the-connection-will-be-closed/#comment-122514 Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:15:03 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=5439#comment-122514 Bump – Windows 2008 Web Edition, and can’t find it either.

]]> By: sandeep ghose http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/06/08/sql-server-fix-error-15372-failed-to-generate-a-ser-instance-od-sql-server-due-to-a-failure-in-starting-the-process-for-the-user-instance-the-connection-will-be-closed/#comment-118449 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:01:15 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=5439#comment-118449 I have vista business edition i also cannot find SQL Express

]]> By: milind http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/06/08/sql-server-fix-error-15372-failed-to-generate-a-ser-instance-od-sql-server-due-to-a-failure-in-starting-the-process-for-the-user-instance-the-connection-will-be-closed/#comment-89255 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:14:51 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=5439#comment-89255 it does not work for me..

]]> By: Alexander http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/06/08/sql-server-fix-error-15372-failed-to-generate-a-ser-instance-od-sql-server-due-to-a-failure-in-starting-the-process-for-the-user-instance-the-connection-will-be-closed/#comment-86788 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:54:57 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=5439#comment-86788 I run vista. can’t find the folder SQL Server Express Data

]]> By: johnM http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/06/08/sql-server-fix-error-15372-failed-to-generate-a-ser-instance-od-sql-server-due-to-a-failure-in-starting-the-process-for-the-user-instance-the-connection-will-be-closed/#comment-70141 Mon, 10 May 2010 17:11:06 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=5439#comment-70141 Hello;

I am on a Win2003 computer; I have same error – other posts indices this as solution howver the folder “c:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server Data\SQLEXPRESS ” is not on the computer.

any suggestions?
thanks much

]]> By: Cemgates101 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/06/08/sql-server-fix-error-15372-failed-to-generate-a-ser-instance-od-sql-server-due-to-a-failure-in-starting-the-process-for-the-user-instance-the-connection-will-be-closed/#comment-61549 Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:58:49 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=5439#comment-61549 Thanks! This worked perfectly!

Note: You may have to change the folder options so that you can see “hidden” files. I could not find my “Local Settings” folder until I changed the folder options. Also, I didn’t delete the directory. I just renamed the SQLEXPRESS file to SQLEXPRESS1 and the fix still worked.

Thanks again! You’re awesome!

Cemgates101

]]> By: David Longstaff http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/06/08/sql-server-fix-error-15372-failed-to-generate-a-ser-instance-od-sql-server-due-to-a-failure-in-starting-the-process-for-the-user-instance-the-connection-will-be-closed/#comment-57310 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:26:49 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=5439#comment-57310 I deleted the dir reloaded and could connect, logged off, a few minutes later I tried to login again same error is now back again???? It seems one connection per reload is all that SQLEXPRESS can manage. give me UNIX and Oracle any day for any application. What is worse MS error messages more or less say “you had an error”, well get away, believe it or not I managed to figure that out for myself by the fact it didn’t work, I wish MS coders would put what the error was, doing what, using what, in the error message, might have a chance of sussing it out then.

]]> By: Rune http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/06/08/sql-server-fix-error-15372-failed-to-generate-a-ser-instance-od-sql-server-due-to-a-failure-in-starting-the-process-for-the-user-instance-the-connection-will-be-closed/#comment-54742 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:48:47 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=5439#comment-54742 Hi Pinal Dave

From the one day to the next I got this error you are describing above. I tried your solution, and hey man! It worked! But it could actually be interesting to know why the error arose? Because as far as I know I didn’t do anything wrong before I started getting this error.

Anyway you solved my problem, therefore you are cool!

Regards

Rune in Copenhagen, Denmark

]]> By: Vern http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/06/08/sql-server-fix-error-15372-failed-to-generate-a-ser-instance-od-sql-server-due-to-a-failure-in-starting-the-process-for-the-user-instance-the-connection-will-be-closed/#comment-54335 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:36:33 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=5439#comment-54335 Rebooting my system is what causes this problem (almost every time) — so if “reboot the system” is part of the proposed solution, I’m probably screwed.

I’ve wasted hours and hours (30m-2h per reboot) on this problem. Sometimes this “delete the directory” works, but not today.

I really wish I’d started this project, I’d have avoided MS crap altogether (LAMP vs. MS.NET+MSSQL), but at this point it’d take 200 hours to convert.

But then within 6 months, I’ll have wasted 50 just trying to get SQLExpress to reconnect after the weekly patch/reboot.

]]> By: Kat http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/06/08/sql-server-fix-error-15372-failed-to-generate-a-ser-instance-od-sql-server-due-to-a-failure-in-starting-the-process-for-the-user-instance-the-connection-will-be-closed/#comment-53563 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:35:13 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=5439#comment-53563 Question: What is this folder doing here in the first place and why does deleting it resolve this issue?? Just curious. I looked for a solution for a long time before I found your post here. It was very frustrating. One day my program is working, the next day when I open it, I cannot connect to my database instance because of this error. I would like to know where this problem occurred and why.

Thanks

Kat

]]> By: Ritesh Modi http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/06/08/sql-server-fix-error-15372-failed-to-generate-a-ser-instance-od-sql-server-due-to-a-failure-in-starting-the-process-for-the-user-instance-the-connection-will-be-closed/#comment-52825 Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:04:14 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=5439#comment-52825 Thanks for your this information. This will very help to resolve the issue if we tried to install again on a machine which content a installation of SQL Server and because of some reason it was crashed.

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