RE: SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RsFx0102\InstancesShares

[RichardS]

InstancesShares contains the share name and security settings for the
filestream feature for each instance of SQL that you have on the server.

This is utilised by the filter driver RsFx0102 which is installed with the
filestream feature. You can try installing SQL Server without the
filstreaming, but the presence of RsFx0102 in the registry would most likely
indicate that you already have other instances on the server, unless an
uninstall has not removed the service and registry keys.

If you do have another instance installed, you can repair the registry key
by going to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL
Server\MSSQL10.<INSTANCE>\Filestream\InstanceGUID and copying the GUID.

Then for each GUID that for find for each instance of SQL, recreate a key
under the location
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\RsFx0102\InstancesShares\ which will
have the value of the GUID as the key name.

If you don't have any other instance of SQL installed, you will have to
proceed with manually removing the driver.

If the above doesn't help, you will most likely have some other registry
corruption issues (probably due to a previous install of SQL).

Hope it helps,

Richard Sayad
http://www.dewlock.com.au

"Richard" wrote:

> Whenever I try to install SQL server 2008 Developer Edition I get this error
> message:
>
> The registry key SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RsFx0102\InstancesShares
> is missing.
>
> Any help as to this problem would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks Richard