Thanks Baron, that hit the spot. Thanks again.
Jonathan ----- Original Message ----- From: J Trahair To: MySQL General Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 9:00 PM Subject: Error message on trying to start service Hi Everyone I had to re-install everything after Norton crashed my hard disk. I re-formatted. I am trying to install MySQL using the same installation files and method as before. MySQL installed OK (mysql-5.0.27-win32.zip). The mysql connector ODBC installed OK. However, I cannot complete the MySQL Server Instance Configuration Wizard 1.0.8. After removing the previous attempt, I choose: Detailed configuration Developer machine Transactional Database Only Decision Support Tick Enable TCP/IP Port number 3306 and tick Enable Strict Mode Standard Character Set Tick Install As Windows Service Tick Bin Directory... Service Name: MySQL New root password entered correctly twice Not tick Create Anonymous When I execute, it ticks the Prepare and the Write items, puts a red x in Start service then says 'Could not start the service MySQL. Error: 0. The error log says: InnoDB: Error: log file .\ib_logfile0 is of different size 0 10485760 bytes InnoDB: than specified in the .cnf file 0 18874368 bytes! 070505 15:28:54 [ERROR] Default storage engine (InnoDB) is not available 070505 15:28:54 [ERROR] Aborting 070505 15:28:54 [Note] C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin\mysqld-nt: Shutdown complete Any suggestions? Thanks in advance Jonathan Trahair
