Phpmyadmin hopelessly corrupted?

I am using xampp stack to create a website but recently had to upgrade my OS and xampp stopped working. MySql server would not launch in the new OS. I looked around here for solutions and found a lot that said I should delete the Ibdata file. I did and it solved my initial problem but now phpmyadmin is close to useless. Every database is giving an error and trying to create a new one just keeps on loading forever. Is there any way to fix this? to reset phpmyadmin to initial state or something? I dont need to recover the databases as they were only tests I just need to be able to create new ones but nothing works anymore.