Guys, I had the same issue and was looking in PDN for a solution and the one above helped in my case!

Thanks a lot! :)

So if others have an issue with personal edition not starting because of (...)tomcat\kafka-data have failed - do what @PKusuma wrote.

@PKusuma -- It worked. Many thanks

@PKusuma

Thank you very much It worked for me.

@PKusuma Thanks kusuma. It's worked for me.

@PKusuma Thank you so much, It worked for me.

@PKusuma  how to remove the folders and files. Can you please tell the steps?

@PKusuma

Thank you. It worked for me too. 

- Raghav

@PKusuma

I had same problem and looked here for any help.

Thank you so much. It worked for me and system came up.

@PKusumait worked thanks

@PKusuma  Thank you so much work for me as well

@PKusumaThank you, Worked for me.

@PKusuma  Thank you , this really helped ..

@PKusuma Worked like a charm to me. Thank you so much.