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Re: Reinstallation Failed
Posted by: Peter Brawley
Date: June 20, 2018 01:30PM

> Error Nr. 1045
> Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

Obviously that reports that the login attempt was made with no password, not that ae a MySql password needs to be changed.

> My goal in uninstalling MySQL was to give MySQL a fresh root password.

?! Unnecessary to say the least.

Did you at least make a backup before you uninstalled MySQL?

> Now error 1045 is preventing reinstallation.

?! Error 1045 cannot prevent reinstallation.

> What should I do?

If we're to help, we'll need to know how installation was attempted, whether the process reported completion, if so then is the mysql server running, if not then what are the installer's error messages.

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