I am desperate for some help installing SQL Server 2008 R2. It came as part of a software package from Rockwell Automation for their FactoryTalk View Studio software. I had the whole package working fine until last week (possibly due to a Windows update, though not sure which one). I decided I needed to uninstall FactoryTalk View Studio and reinstall. This required me to also uninstall SQL Server 2008 R2. I have tried 20 or more times to reinstall it but without success. I spent 2+ hours on the phone with Rockwell tech support trying to install but to no avail.
Here's the error description from the
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Setup Bootstrap\Log\summary.txt
file:
SQL Server Browser configuration for feature 'SQL_Browser_Redist_SqlBrowser_Cpu32' was cancelled by user after a previous installation failure. The last attempted step: Starting the SQL Server Browser service 'SQLBrowser', and waiting for up to '900' seconds for the process to complete.