Service cannot startup

[Benbunny]

Dear all,

OS: Window2000 server
SQL: SQL server 7.0

The service is suddenly fail and cannot start again. If I press start, the following error message as shown below:

An error 5 (access is denied) - occurred while performing this service operation on the MSSQL server service.

Thanks for your kindly help.

 

[nicatt]

Are you using an evaluation or trial copy? After the stated days the service will not start. Check your error log for a message that indicates such a problem. So... if that is the case, the only way to fix it is to uninstall the product and reinstall for another 120 days, etc. Of course you have to save off your data in another directory.