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Asked: 2026-06-14T13:24:38+00:00

I have a user Database that I managed to recover after a Hardware failure,

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I have a user Database that I managed to recover after a Hardware failure, however when I try and import it to my new MYSQL database in PHPMyAdmin it says that it cannot read it due to it being for another version of MYSQL. I have no idea what version of MYSQL my older corrupted server was?

I’m having to get my customers to manually re-register and me setting everything up manually again which is going to take hours.

The file I have is “users.MYD”. Is there any way of importing ignoring compatibility issues?

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    My advice is to install the same version of MySQL that you previously had, stick that MYD file (and others) into it, start MySQL, mysqldump out the data and then insert that into your new MySQL database.

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    After much searching around, it does appear that the problem here is that the old database was a MySQL 4.1 database (or older), and you can’t install MYD/frm files from a 4.1 db on to a MySQL 5.0 database – the way to do that is to mysqldump the data and import it into the new database. The challenge here therefore is to find a MySQL 4.1 database, which probably involves installing a very old operating system.

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