Problems with MySQL server - xampp

Question

I have the issue with MySQL server.
I installed a Xampp server on top of an older one based on some other instructions. The old one was in my C drive (c:/Xampp) and the new one I put on my desktop C:/Users/user/Desktop/xampp.
I managed to fix the Apache server by changing the port number but I am still having issues with SQL Server.
Tried the following:
Step 1: Search for ['client'], you can see some thing like this
[client]
# password = your_password
port = 3306
socket = "C:/xampp/mysql/mysql.sock"
Now in the port section remove 3306 and add port = 3306 > 3307 as shown below.
[client]
# password = your_password
port = 3306 > 3307
socket = "C:/xampp/mysql/mysql.sock"
Step 2: similarly searched for ['mysqld'], you can see something like this
[mysqld]
port= 3306
socket = "C:/xampp/mysql/mysql.sock"
basedir = "C:/xampp/mysql"
tmpdir = "C:/xampp/tmp"
datadir = "C:/xampp/mysql/data"
pid_file = "mysql.pid"
# enable-named-pipe
key_buffer = 16M
max_allowed_packet = 1M
sort_buffer_size = 512K
net_buffer_length = 8K
read_buffer_size = 256K
read_rnd_buffer_size = 512K
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 8M
log_error = "mysql_error.log"
Now here I changed the port number 3306 to 3307 and add a line innodb_force_recovery = 1 exactly as shown below:
[mysqld]
port= 3307
socket = "C:/xampp/mysql/mysql.sock"
basedir = "C:/xampp/mysql"
tmpdir = "C:/xampp/tmp"
datadir = "C:/xampp/mysql/data"
pid_file = "mysql.pid"
# enable-named-pipe
key_buffer = 16M
max_allowed_packet = 1M
sort_buffer_size = 512K
net_buffer_length = 8K
read_buffer_size = 256K
read_rnd_buffer_size = 512K
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 8M
log_error = "mysql_error.log"
innodb_force_recovery = 1**
Did not work.
Any suggestions? Thanks.