When I try to start the service, it fails and the following appears in the Application log within Event Viewer: Source: MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS Event ID: 17058 Task Category: Server Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Description: initerrlog: Could not open error log file ''. Operating system error = 3(The system cannot find the path specified.). To fix this I had to change the Log on as property of the service from Local Service to Local System Technorati Tags: sql server 2008,troubleshooting,servic... ...