Error Dropping Database (Can't rmdir '.test\', errno: 17)

Question

Basically, I was taught on how to create a root password using the \"mysqladmin -u root -p password\" command, this was done all through the windows command editor. Now, the

Answer 1

In my case I didn't see any tables under my database on phpMyAdmin I am using Wamp server but when I checked the directory under C:\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.6.12\data I found this employed.ibd when I deleted this file manually I was able to drop the database from phpMyAdmin smoothly without any problems.