Hi there,
I had WinXP failure before few days and was unable to boot up XP where I had on partition D:\ database MySQL 5.0.15. I bought a new hard disk, reinstall WinXP and also MySQL (same version). I wasn’t in position to make export tables and databases from old hard disk before disaster but I’m able to reach it and read all files from old hard disk!
How I could to transfer databases & tables form former MySQL installation to a new disk? :hat: I tried simply to copy all folders from DATA folder into DATA folder of new installation but tables are dimmed in MySQL Front (grey) and I can’t access to data even *.opt and *.frm files aren’t zero length! 
Is there some way to do this? Thank you.
If they are MyISAM databases you are 99% of the way there - you just need to make sure you have copied the database descriptor files across and it should all work. They are grey because they need to be attached to the MySQL server instance - they should be in the data folder too but they may be in a different location
The only problem is that I’ve forgotton what the filenames are!
I’ll have a look tonight - otherwise try ahmeds solution above, it should work assuming the data files are ok!
