Today I have changed the tempdb's file locations using the ALTER DATABASE MODIFY
command and I have accidentaly set it to use the root of the volume. The SQL Server service failed to restart and came up with Access denied errors in eventlog. It is a 2016 Sp1 failover cluster.
I tried to workaround this using
NET START MSSQL$INST1 /f /T3608
but it does not work.
What can I do about this? How can I restart the service to get able to re-define the setting to use a subfolder.
Best Answer
Pinal Dave wrote up a nice article on how to fix this. Have you tried this?
From the looks of things you are having an issue starting SQL that is a named instance. This Microsoft article explains how to use that command with a named instance:
Are you getting any errors in the error log for the service startup failure?