you need to ditch the 'data' directory (in the MySQL installation root) and start from scratch. If you just re-install the MySQL server, I don't think it will overwrite your data directory. On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 10:30:25 EDT, acezero2790@xxxxxxx <acezero2790@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Look I'm totally new to this, so all this MySQL stuff you are sending me too > is like an alien language to me. > > Can you just tell me how to delete all this MySQL stuff so I can start again > or something? Because even when I reinstall MySQL and delete my old > MySQLgui.exe, it still gives me the same problem... > -- randy sesser@xxxxxxxxx -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php