Re: getting database back after a disaster + no back-ups

Mark Mchugh wrote:
> Hi,
> A strange one here, my windows 2003 server died, but i
> have managed to get access to all the drive, i had
> mysql 5.0 installed on it. The issue was caused by
> incompatible hardware, so 2003 will not go onto the
> machine. I've managed to put a partition on  + boot
> into windows 2000, is there anyway i can get my old
> mysql database back?
>
>   

The only possible way is to somehow restore any lost file after a 
re-partition. However, from my personal experience, once you wipe out 
the partition any chance you had to undelete the old files are *gone*.  
On top of that, after you repartitioned your drive, you had to format it 
again in order to install Windows 2000.

I am not a forensics specialist but I would put your odds a recovering 
any files from your previous setup at practically zero.

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