I was curious, so I uninstalled 3.8 and installed the dev package version and MySQL had no problem starting.
At any rate, I was able to fix the problem by following the information below from stackoverflow.com. I hope this helps someone else.
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I have the same problem and the solution with innodb_force_recovery = 1 didn't work. When I run /ampps/mysql/bin/mysql.exe it was written that MSVCR100.dll was missing. I solve that by installing Visual C++ 2010 Runtime, both 32bit and 64bit versions, from url: