mysqld: Can‘t create directory ‘D: oftinstall\mysql57 (Errcode: 2 - No such file or directory)

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installed mysql after , To initialize the data file , Input

mysqld --initialize-insecure --user=mysql

Then the following error may occur **：

mysqld: Can’t create directory ‘E: oft\mysql\mysql-5.7.19-winx64\data’ (Errcode: 2 - No such file or directory)

It's a slash error

 take 

basedir=E:\soft\mysql\mysql-5.7.19-winx64\ 

 Change it to 

basedir=E:\\soft\\mysql\\mysql-5.7.19-winx64\\ （ Change it to MySQL The path after decompression ）

 take 

datadir=E:\soft\mysql\mysql-5.7.19-winx64\data\ 

 Change it to 

datadir=E:\\soft\\mysql\\mysql-5.7.19-winx64\\data\\ （ Change it to MySQL The path after decompression \data）