title: Azure storage emulator failed to initialize for Azure SDK 2.4
body: <p>I was learning how to use the Microsoft Azure Tools for Visual Studio to develop an Azure cloud service at :"<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/ff687127.aspx#Install" rel="noreferrer">Getting Started with the Azure Tools for Visual Studio</a>". </p>
  
  <p>I successfully completed the following steps:
  1. Install the Azure tools.
  2. Create an Azure cloud service.</p>
  
  <p>3rd step was build and debug the cloud service, where i was stuck.
  While debugging i got an error "Failed to initialize Microsoft Azure Storage Emulator".</p>
  
  <p>I did try various methods given on various websites to initialize the Storage Emulator, but none of them worked for me.</p>
  
  <p>When I was trying the command <code>WAStorageEmulator.exe init</code> , i got an error "cannot create database".</p>
  
  <p>Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>