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