[SOLVED] Error during installation - "Updating permission setting for file "K:\System Volume Information\WPSettings.dat' failed."

  • Hello,
    I've installed SQL Server 2016 (with SP1) onto several servers recently with minimal issues.  However, this install on a particular server is consistently failing.

    "Updating permission setting for folder K:\System Volume Information\WPSettings.dat' failed. The folder permission setting were supposed to be set to [...]"

    We've been installing new SQL Server instances and setting the log file to use a separate K: directory that we've created on each server.  For some reason, this one server keeps giving us issues.  We've tried rebooting and reformatting the new K drive, but we keep seeing the same results. 

    I do notice that I can access the K: drive in file explorer prior to the install attempt, but after it fails, the drive is no longer accessible to me in file explorer.

    I would greatly appreciate any pointers on how to solve this!

  • Think I found the issue.  Looks like installing to the root of a drive is bad practice and can break permissions on that drive.  This has been fixed.

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