After many successful upgrade from SQL Server 2012 to 2016 on production, QA & Dev etc server. I got a problem on a production environment.

I executed setup top upgrade available SQL Server 2012 features to SQL Server 2016.

In the process I got an message that

Setup is not able to create folder/directory in Q: #its not exec words but meaning was same

Actually Q:\ was backup path configured in Database settings of SQL Server but as we migrated our backups to NAS, Q: drive doesn’t exists anymore & we missed to change configuration.

Some feature like SSRS, SSIS & SSAS etc. upgraded successfully but setup failed to upgrade SQLEngine and it’s dependent.

After changing backup path in database settings of server property. I re-ran the setup but this time I facing error.

No Features Selected for Upgrade

Thanks!