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I just installed xampp and I've been very impressed but I wonder if anyone can help me out.

I had a previous version of MySQL installed on a hard drive that I've removed (it was damaged) but when I click to activate/install MySQL through xampp, it tells me there's an existing MySQL install on my machine and therefore won't install.

I am guessing there is a config/setup file somewhere that I can edit but I don't know what it would be called or where it might be so that I can remove the reference to MySQL on the old hard drive so the new one from xampp will install.

Could anyone tell me where this file might be?

Many thanks

Sounds like you have MySQL running as an autostart service. Disable that and you should be able to add the new MySQL.