hello, I am receiving numerous installation failure notices on my install of solidworks 2016/17. Including the following:

Microsoft SQL Server failed to install.

The specified directory, "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\", for the INSTALLSHAREDDIR parameter is not valid because this directory is compressed or is in a compressed directory. Specify a directory that is not compressed.

I downloaded SolidWorksSetup, unzipped, the installer immediately ran, chose create a new installation of solidworks 2016 sp2.0, unchecked "help files', VSTA, manuals, and example files from the installation menus, and this comes up within the first 1% of install. I have also uninstalled my previous version completely and tried re-downloading, same errors occur. When I click ok and 'online help' the link is unresponsive.

As I continue the install, the following error occurs:

Error 27502. Could not connect to Microsoft SQL Server 'localhost\TEW_SQLEXPRESS'. [DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen (Connect()).]Specified SQL server not found. (6)

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the 'in this directory' link is also unresponsive.

As I continue the install, the following error occurs:

Internal error: The Windows Installer for this product component did not run as expected: ISSQLServerInstall.

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the IM Log is attached for one of my previous installation attempt errors. Thank you for your help!. ​ ​ ​