InnoDB error

[Kray Mitchell]

Hello All,
I am pretty new to Windows Servers (Mac guy, have run 2 Xserves for Web and Email though) and I seem to be having an issue with getting 5.1 running on our Windows Server 2003.

Ran the package installer and everything went OK, but we are unable to get the service to start or login via MySQL Administrator.

When I attempt to launch the MySQL service, I get this in the Event Viewer:
ERROR: Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error.
ERROR: Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed.
ERROR: Unknown/unsupported table type: INNODB
ERROR: Aborting
Information: C:\mysqlPATH\bin\mysqld: Shutdown complete


When I attempt to login via MySQL Administrator, I get this error:
Could not connect to the specified instance.

MySQL Error Number 2003
Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)

If you want to check the network connection, please click the Ping button.


I have also received an error about incorrect user/pass in MySQL Admin.

We only ever use 2 passwords on this server, and neither of them work. We have attempted to reset the password using the mysql-init.txt and it appears to work (We don't get any errors or anything) but we still can't login.

I can't seem to find any info on completely removing MySQL from the server so we can literally start from scratch (Without reformatting the server).

Can anybody assist with this?? Thanks.





When I try and login to MySQL Administrator, I get this error: