Hello,
I had a recent crash of the motherboard in my Windows XP machine. Fortunately the hard drive survived and I now have it installed in an external SATA USB case using it with my new Windows 7 Pro computer which I have installed Virtual PC and XP mode on to be able to run legacy XP software and also, use as an Apache/PHP/MySQL test bed and development machine.
My question... I'd like to get the data back from my external HDD so how best to do it? I've installed the same version of MySQL and then tried copying the MySQL data files from the external HDD to the virtual PC but I get errors that the file's 'in use' and have not been successful in doing a copy. I don't know that Virtual PC supports a 'safe mode' that I might go into to do a copy or that I can access this Virtual PC data from Windows 7 Pro. I've also shut off Apache and tried copying after that with no luck.
Now that I have MySQL Server 4.1 reinstalled onto the Virtual PC, shouldn't I basically be able to copy the contents of the old folder to the new folder (paths being the same) and have clear access to those files or am I missing something??? So... Any thoughts on doing a 'copy' of those data files since more conventional copy methods don't seem to be working would be greatly appreciated.
TIA,
Chris
I had a recent crash of the motherboard in my Windows XP machine. Fortunately the hard drive survived and I now have it installed in an external SATA USB case using it with my new Windows 7 Pro computer which I have installed Virtual PC and XP mode on to be able to run legacy XP software and also, use as an Apache/PHP/MySQL test bed and development machine.
My question... I'd like to get the data back from my external HDD so how best to do it? I've installed the same version of MySQL and then tried copying the MySQL data files from the external HDD to the virtual PC but I get errors that the file's 'in use' and have not been successful in doing a copy. I don't know that Virtual PC supports a 'safe mode' that I might go into to do a copy or that I can access this Virtual PC data from Windows 7 Pro. I've also shut off Apache and tried copying after that with no luck.
Now that I have MySQL Server 4.1 reinstalled onto the Virtual PC, shouldn't I basically be able to copy the contents of the old folder to the new folder (paths being the same) and have clear access to those files or am I missing something??? So... Any thoughts on doing a 'copy' of those data files since more conventional copy methods don't seem to be working would be greatly appreciated.
TIA,
Chris
