Following the success of my “how to catch a fish on zelda” post, I thought I’d make another techy post. After experiencing frustration that I could not get mysql to work, because the service wont start, the following post solved my problem
http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?11,19373,26284#msg-26284
I just had to choose a different name for mysql service, then the old corrupt one that I could not get rid of was ignored.
Tags: Cannot Create Windows Service for MySQL. Error:0, install, mysql