Re: Could not start the MySQL service: Error 1067

[Kong Guan Seow]

I am having the same problem on Windows 2000 workstation with Mysql ver 5.

I think mysql can't find the default setting ( path to basedir and datadir ).
With refer to Lissa post, create a my.ini file in your windows directory (e.g. winnt or windows) with the following content:

[mysqld]
# set basedir to your installation path
basedir=D:/mysql
# set datadir to the location of your data directory
datadir=D:/mysql/data

That solved my problem. Hope this help