Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.user' doesn't exist

Question

I installed MySQL community server 5.7.10 using binary zip. I extracted the zip in c:\\mysql and created the data folder in c:\\mysql\\data. I crea

Answer 1

You have to initialize the data directory by running the following command

mysqld --initialize [with random root password]

mysqld --initialize-insecure [with blank root password]