WAMP Server stays offline. MySQL service not starting "could not start the wampmysqld64 service - error 1067"

Question

I have spent hours trying to get the server running (for the first time), trying many solutions posted online, but to no success.

First time install (Win 7 x64), light remains orage (server offline). If I look at service, the start/resume service remains green:

If I go in services and try start wampmysqld64 service I get this error message:

Here is the Event Viewer Application log (the WAMP mysql log is empty):

Error   11/09/2015 09:04:22 MySQL   100 None Aborting
Error   11/09/2015 09:04:22 MySQL   100 None Unknown/unsupported storage engine: InnoDB
Error   11/09/2015 09:04:22 MySQL   100 None Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed.
Error   11/09/2015 09:04:22 MySQL   100 None Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error.
Error   11/09/2015 09:04:22 MySQL   100 None InnoDB: Could not open or create the system tablespace. If you tried to add new data files to the system tablespace, and it failed here, you should now edit innodb_data_file_path in my.cnf back to what it was, and remove the new ibdata files InnoDB created in this failed attempt. InnoDB only wrote those files full of zeros, but did not yet use them in any way. But be careful: do not remove old data files which contain your precious data!
Error   11/09/2015 09:04:22 MySQL   100 None InnoDB: space header page consists of zero bytes in data file .\ibdata1
Warning 11/09/2015 09:04:22 MySQL   100 None InnoDB: Doublewrite does not have page_no=0 of space: 0

I haven't removed/deleted any files, but I did install WAMP server on my D drive (OS on C) due to space limitations).

Answer 1

Installing WAMPServer on the D: drive is just fine.

Possibly somehow these files have been corrupted so try deleting them.

Stop WAMPServer

Delete these files, as this is an initial install they will not have any data in them and the restart of WAMPServer should cause MYSQL to re-create them.

\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.6.17\data\ib_logfile0
\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.6.17\data\ib_logfile1
\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.6.17\data\ibdata1

Now for a little bug fix: Edit \wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.6.17\my.ini Find the section marker [wampmysqld] and change it to [wampmysqld64]

Save my.ini

Restart WAMPServer

Also if you are a little short of memory adding this parameter to the my.ini file inside the [wampmysqld64] will reduce the MYSQL memory requirement. Later versions of MYSQL seem to use a hugh amounts of memory ( half a gig ) lots of which is the table_definition_cache for MYISAM files, this will reduce it to something sensible and not effect your use of MYISAM files.

[wampmysqld64]
table_definition_cache = 600