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Asked: 2026-06-07T23:20:23+00:00

I am getting an error while trying to create a database using Server Explorer

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I am getting an error while trying to create a database using Server Explorer in Visual Studio 2010.

I checked SQL Server configuration manager and found that SQL service is not running, but when I am trying to start it; its not starting 🙁

Please guide me solution for this, I’ve figured out that I may have disabled some windows service required to run SQL Server (while optimizing WinXP after installing it some months ago).

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  1. Editorial Team

    From the error it is clear that your master database file of SqlServerExpress is corrupted.

    Since this is a new installation, it would be best to uninstall and reinstall SqlServerExpress.

    If you have a copy of SqlServer, installing that would solve the problem too.

    If you do not want to reinstall, the master database can be rebuilt.

    From how to rebuild master database:

    Use of the Setup command to rebuild the master database has changed in
    this Microsoft SQL Server release. Run Setup.exe to rebuild, verify,
    and repair a SQL Server instance, and rebuild the system databases.
    This procedure is most often used to rebuild the master database for a
    corrupted installation of SQL Server.

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