title: having trouble getting mySQL to run on my xampp
body: <p>So I'm completely new to php and mySQL. I downloaded Xampp to start playing around and hopefully learn. I get up today open the Xampp control panel I hit start on Apache it runs fine. I then hit start on mySQL it immediately stops gives me this in the lower comment part of the control panel.</p>
  
  <pre><code>10:48:46  [mysql]   Attempting to start MySQL app...
  10:48:46  [mysql]   Status change detected: running
  10:48:49  [mysql]   Status change detected: stopped
  10:48:49  [mysql]   Error: MySQL shutdown unexpectedly.
  10:48:49  [mysql]   This may be due to a blocked port, missing dependencies, 
  10:48:49  [mysql]   improper privileges, a crash, or a shutdown by another method.
  10:48:49  [mysql]   Press the Logs button to view error logs and check
  10:48:49  [mysql]   the Windows Event Viewer for more clues
  10:48:49  [mysql]   If you need more help, copy and post this
  10:48:49  [mysql]   entire log window on the forums
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  <p>Haven't got clue what I've done wrong don't know where to start to sort the problem? any ideas?</p>
  
  <p>This is what I get in windows event viewer:</p>
  
  <p>error Event ID 100</p>
  
  <p>details:</p>
  
  <pre><code>- System 
  
    - Provider 
  
     [ Name]  MySQL 
  
    - EventID 100 
  
     [ Qualifiers]  49152 
  
     Level 2 
  
     Task 0 
  
     Keywords 0x80000000000000 
  
    - TimeCreated 
  
     [ SystemTime]  2015-11-10T10:48:48.000000000Z 
  
     EventRecordID 9795 
  
     Channel Application 
  
     Computer troypc 
  
     Security 
  
  
  - EventData 
  
     mysqld.exe: File 'C:\xampp\mysql\data\master-2015@002d11@002d09@002010@003a55@003a29@0020768@0020innodb@003a@0020error@003a@0020fetch@0020of@0020persistent@0020statistics@0020requested@0020for@0020table@0020@0022phpmyadmin@0022@002e@0022pma_usergroups@0022@0020but@0020the@0020required@0020system@0020tables@0020mysql@002einnodb_table_stats@0020and@0020mysql@002ei.info' not found (Errcode: 2 "No such file or directory") 
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