Installation problem: Unable to start service (3) - Error Code: 0x80070003

Hello,

I have Vista x64 and I had been fighting SQL Server for a few days and yesterday I decided for reinstallation. Unfortunately now I am not able to instal the server back!

Each time I got the following error (it refers to SQL Server service):

Code Snippet

<Func Name='LaunchFunction'>
Function=Do_sqlShutDownRANUInstance
<Func Name='GetCAContext'>
<EndFunc Name='GetCAContext' Return='T' GetLastError='203'>
Doing Action: Do_sqlShutDownRANUInstance
PerfTime Start: Do_sqlShutDownRANUInstance : Tue Sep 04 23:32:16 2007
<Func Name='Do_sqlShutDownRANUInstance'>
Service SQLEXPRESS with parameters '' is being started at Tue Sep 04 23:32:16 2007
Unable to start service (3)
Error Code: 0x80070003 (3)
Windows Error Text: System nie mo?e odnale?? okre?lonej ?cie?ki.
Source File Name: sqlsetuplib\service.cpp
Compiler Timestamp: Wed Jun 14 16:29:04 2006
Function Name: sqls::Service::Start
Source Line Number: 316

- Context --

Setting status of unmanaged components and removing unmanaged resources

Error Code: 3
MSI (s) (F4:E4) [23:32:24:490]: I/O on thread 3716 could not be cancelled. Error: 1168
MSI (s) (F4:E4) [23:32:24:493]: I/O on thread 788 could not be cancelled. Error: 1168
MSI (s) (F4:E4) [23:32:24:493]: I/O on thread 2948 could not be cancelled. Error: 1168
MSI (s) (F4:E4) [23:32:24:493]: I/O on thread 4392 could not be cancelled. Error: 1168
MSI (s) (F4:E4) [23:32:24:493]: I/O on thread 5048 could not be cancelled. Error: 1168
MSI (s) (F4:E4) [23:32:24:495]: I/O on thread 4464 could not be cancelled. Error: 1168
MSI (s) (F4:E4) [23:32:24:495]: I/O on thread 4992 could not be cancelled. Error: 1168
MSI (s) (F4:E4) [23:32:24:495]: I/O on thread 4768 could not be cancelled. Error: 1168
MSI (s) (F4:E4) [23:32:24:497]: I/O on thread 3004 could not be cancelled. Error: 1168
MSI (s) (F4!4C) [23:32:24:497]: Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 -- Error 29503. The SQL Server service failed to start. For more information, see the SQL Server Books Online topics, "How to: View SQL Server 2005 Setup Log Files" and "Starting SQL Server Manually."
The error is (3) System nie mo?e odnale?? okre?lonej ?cie?ki.
.

Error 29503. The SQL Server service failed to start. For more information, see the SQL Server Books Online topics, "How to: View SQL Server 2005 Setup Log Files" and "Starting SQL Server Manually."
The error is (3) System nie mo?e odnale?? okre?lonej ?cie?ki.
.
<Failure Type='Fatal' Error='3'>
<EndFunc Name='LaunchFunction' Return='3' GetLastError='203'>
MSI (s) (F4:80) [23:32:24:507]: User policy value 'DisableRollback' is 0
MSI (s) (F4:80) [23:32:24:507]: Machine policy value 'DisableRollback' is 0
Action ended 23:32:24: InstallFinalize. Return value 3.
MSI (s) (F4:80) [23:32:24:512]: Executing op: Header(Signature=1397708873,Version=400,Timestamp=925154312,LangId=1033,Platform=0,ScriptType=2,ScriptMajorVersion=21,ScriptMinorVersion=4,ScriptAttributes=1)
MSI (s) (F4:80) [23:32:24:512]: Executing op: DialogInfo(Type=0,Argument=1033)
MSI (s) (F4:80) [23:32:24:513]: Executing op: DialogInfo(Type=1,Argument=Microsoft SQL Server 2005)
MSI (s) (F4:80) [23:32:24:514]: Executing op: RollbackInfo(,RollbackAction=Rollback,RollbackDescription=Rolling back action:,RollbackTemplate=[1],CleanupAction=RollbackCleanup,CleanupDescription=Removing backup files,CleanupTemplate=File: [1])
MSI (s) (F4:80) [23:32:24:516]: Executing op: ActionStart(Name=Do_sqlShutDownRANUInstance.D20239D7_E87C_40C9_9837_E70B8D4882C2,Description=Running action to shutdown instance(Run As Normal User),)
MSI (s) (F4:80) [23:32:24:517]: Executing op: ProductInfo(ProductKey={C3F5DBA5-ABFC-443E-AA60-928223AADF53},ProductName=Microsoft SQL Server 2005,PackageName=sqlrun_sql.msi,Language=1033,Version=151129058,Assignment=1,ObsoleteArg=0,ProductIcon=ARPIcon.ico,PackageMediaPath=\Setup\,PackageCode={08AD0897-0300-4F7D-A3CC-A0CCEDD42E0D},,,InstanceType=1,LUASetting=0,RemoteURTInstalls=0,ProductDeploymentFlags=3)
MSI (s) (F4:80) [23:32:24:518]: Executing op: ActionStart(Name=ProcessComponents,Description=Updating component registration,)
MSI (s) (F4:80) [23:32:24:519]: Executing op: RegOpenKey(Root=-2147483646,Key=SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SharedDLLs,,BinaryType=0,)
MSI (s) (F4:80) [23:32:24:520]: Executing op: RegOpenKey(Root=-2147483646,Key=SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SharedDLLs,,BinaryType=0,)
MSI (s) (F4:80) [23:32:24:520]: Executing op: ComponentUnregister(ComponentId={68C6D258-77E0-11D5-8528-00C04F68155C},ProductKey={C3F5DBA5-ABFC-443E-AA60-928223AADF53},BinaryType=0,)
MSI (s) (F4:80) [23:32:24:520]: Executing op: ComponentUnregister(ComponentId={68C6D257-77E0-11D5-8528-00C04F68155C},ProductKey={C3F5DBA5-ABFC-443E-AA60-928223AADF53},BinaryType=0,)

What can I do solve the problem?

I would run through a manual uninstall procedure:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909967

and then try and re-install it.