Access to path ... denied

[Luis Ferlante]

Hi,

I'm installing MySQL to Windows 10. I have two nvme drives, the main drive C:/ with where windows is installed. On the second drive, I partitioned it into two to get a partition just for db instance to run, which I called E:/.

While installing I selected the custom install and the only thing that I changed was the directory where the instance would be installed, the E:/.

During the final process in MySQL installer, when installer tries to install MYSQL Server, after I input the Root Password I just use the Standard System Account for the "Run Windows Service as..."

I couldn't find any post with this issue.

I thought that I might have to run the installer as Admin because I suspected it isn't being able to access the drive for that reason. That didn't work, even though there is only 1 user, which has admin privileges.


Could someone please advise on the best way to troubleshoot the issue above.

Any suggestions? Thank you for your time.