JBoss EAP 5.2 is not starting on windows machine

Issue

• While running EAP 5.2 on windows machine , following error appears in the JBoss EAP server.log file :

ERROR [org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.ScopedProfileServiceController] (main) Error installing to Create: name=ProfileKey@45ff4ac0[domain=default, server=default, name=farm] state=Configured mode=On Demand requiredState=Installed
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    ... 
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.io.IOException
    at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.clustered.local.AbstractContentMetadataPersister.load(AbstractContentMetadataPersister.java:76)
    at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.clustered.local.AbstractLocalContentManager.<init>(AbstractLocalContentManager.java:136)
    at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.clustered.local.file.FilesystemLocalContentManager.<init>(FilesystemLocalContentManager.java:64)
    ... 
Caused by: java.io.IOException
    at org.jboss.net.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.<init>(FileURLConnection.java:102)
    at org.jboss.net.protocol.file.Handler.openConnection(Handler.java:40)
    at java.net.URL.openConnection(URL.java:971)
    at java.net.URL.openStream(URL.java:1037)
    at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.clustered.local.JAXBRepositoryContentMetadataPersister.loadMetadata(JAXBRepositoryContentMetadataPersister.java:85)
    at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.clustered.local.AbstractContentMetadataPersister.load(AbstractContentMetadataPersister.java:68)
    ... 30 more
Caused by: java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in path at index 16: file:/C:/Program Files/jboss-eap-5.2/jboss-as/server/server/data/farm-repository-contents.xml
    at java.net.URI$Parser.fail(URI.java:2829)
    at java.net.URI$Parser.checkChars(URI.java:3002)
    at java.net.URI$Parser.parseHierarchical(URI.java:3086)
    at java.net.URI$Parser.parse(URI.java:3034)
    at java.net.URI.<init>(URI.java:595)
    at java.net.URL.toURI(URL.java:938)
    at org.jboss.net.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.<init>(FileURLConnection.java:85)
    ... 35 more