Problems Uninstalling then Reinstalling

[Simon Harvey]

Hi everyone,

I am having what I hope is a very simple problem getting started with mySQL.
I had the server running earlier this morning and everything seemed fine.
But I had to unistall it for some reason (I can't even remember why now!)

The problem is, the new installation won't work - the service won't start.
It doesnt give any more information than that.

I went to the services listing in Windows in order to try and restart the
service manually, but as I expected, I got the same problem.

Now, I know whats causing the problem - the service installed by the
original install is still sitting there. I can tell because if I look at its
properties, it still refers to the old installation path. Its as if the
uninstaller didn't unistall the service, just everything else.

Does anyone know how to fix this and why it happend in the first place. I
think I just need to get rid of the service and then everything would be
fine. I can't find anything to do with mysql on my computer or in the reg.

Thanks to anyone who can help

Simon

[Simon Harvey]

Hi again,

Well things have moved on slightly. I have got rid of the service by hacking
it out of the registry. I have a backup incase that was a bad idea, but I
was following instructions from someone who seemed to know his stuff.

But there is still a problem:

When I try and start I get:

C:\mysql\bin>mysqld-max-nt.exe
030720 15:43:10 Can't find messagefile
'C:\mysql4.013\share\english\errmsg.sys'
030720 15:43:10 Aborting
Now, that path is actually the old path. How can i stop it looking at the
old install path. I just need it to forget about previous installations -
quite easy really. This is not doing the mysql team any favours at the
moment!

Thanks to anyone who can rekindle my faith in open source databases

Simon

[Simon Harvey]

Hi again,

Well things have moved on slightly. I have got rid of the service by hacking
it out of the registry. I have a backup incase that was a bad idea, but I
was following instructions from someone who seemed to know his stuff.

But there is still a problem:

When I try and start I get:

C:\mysql\bin>mysqld-max-nt.exe
030720 15:43:10 Can't find messagefile
'C:\mysql4.013\share\english\errmsg.sys'
030720 15:43:10 Aborting
Now, that path is actually the old path. How can i stop it looking at the
old install path. I just need it to forget about previous installations -
quite easy really. This is not doing the mysql team any favours at the
moment!

Thanks to anyone who can rekindle my faith in open source databases

Simon