Solve the problem that the service cannot be started when installing the decompressed version of mysql 5.7.18 winx64 on Win7 x64

Today I downloaded mysql-5.7.18-winx64.zip from the mysql official website and unzipped it;

Then follow the steps in https://www.jb51.net/article/83646.htm to configure.

However, at the step of net start mysql, an error message is displayed: "MySQL service is starting.MySQL service cannot be started."

After several hours of searching online, I finally figured it out. The solution is as follows:

First delete the folder data under the directory ../mysql-5.7.18-winx64 (if you are not sure, you can cut it to another directory).

Then execute the initialization command mysqld --initialize .

At this time, net start mysql can be started successfully.

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The above is the solution to the problem that the service cannot be started when installing the unzipped version of MySQL 5.7.18 winx64 on Win7 x64. I hope it will be helpful to everyone. If you have any questions, please leave me a message and I will reply to you in time. I would also like to thank everyone for their support of the 123WORDPRESS.COM website!