I was going thru the charset change to utf8 on my local MySQL(5.1) databases, had done some changes only via phpmyadmin to the dbs and straight to my.ini - file. When I booted my pc (win xp pro sp 3), MySQL server is not starting up at all and I can't figure out why. I changed the ini-file back as it was, but no. If I'd re-install the whole thing, do they existing dbs remain just fine (I think so) and after the install they're good to go?

Any clues what could be causing it and what you think about the re-install?

All the help mostly appreciated, my first post here, hope this forum is alive! :)

-jazz

解决方案

Delete file c:\Program Files\MySQL Server\bin\mysqld-nt which is 0 byte, then you can start the service, or, in Windows 8.1, delete c:\Program Files\MySQL Server\bin\mysqld which is also 0 byte.