MySQL Service won't start on Windows 7

Posted on Tue 12 July 2011 in blog

So today, I attempted to install MySQL on Windows 7. From the MySQL Download site, I grabbed the latest version of their .msi installer, mysql-installer-5.5.13.2.msi. I went through the installer, and found that the last step, starting the MySQL services (mysqld) was failing. The service existed …


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