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MySQL 5.1 installer Could not start Service …

April 1st, 2009 . by Dave

Error Message: Could not start Service …

Problem: Installer can’t create my.ini properly when you use anything but the default settings during the initial configuration soo…

Solution:

1.Remove Instance
2. Uninstall MySQL
3. Delete %alluserprofile%\Application Data\MySQL
4. Delete rest of %programfiles%\MySQL
5. Reboot  (not 100% sure if required but Windows likes reboots)
6. Reinstallation of MySQL
7. Creation of MySQL Instance with default values
8. Reconfiguration of the Instance with the Configuration Tool

Posted in Windows | 2 Comments »

2 Responses to “MySQL 5.1 installer Could not start Service …”

  1. comment number 1 by: Desiree
    April 22nd, 2009 at 3:52 pm

    Well said.

  2. comment number 2 by: Ian Glockner
    April 30th, 2009 at 7:31 am

    I really appreciate this post. We use wordpress for some of our blogs and I was really pulling my hair out fighting to install MySQL 5.1 on a new server. I sifted through a lot of posts on the MySQL site with no results. I tried different configurations with the wizard, but didn’t assume it would leave behind any application data when uninstalled.

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