I have the .frm and .ibd files from an old, non-working MySQL server (on Windows). I took out the hard drive and was able to get the data directory copied to my machine.

How would I get them into MySQL on my development machine? I tried just copying the directory into the MySQL data directory, but that didn't work.

The old database is v5.5.4, and my version is v5.7.15. I'd be happy to install a matching MySQL version if that would help.

I saw Restoring MySQL Tables from .ibd, .frm and mysqllogbin files, but this database has over 800 tables in it - way too much for that process.

I have the .frm and .ibd files from an old, non-working MySQL server (on Windows). I took out the hard drive and was able to get the data directory copied to my machine.

How would I get them into MySQL on my development machine? I tried just copying the directory into the MySQL data directory, but that didn't work.

The old database is v5.5.4, and my version is v5.7.15. I'd be happy to install a matching MySQL version if that would help.

I saw Restoring MySQL Tables from .ibd, .frm and mysqllogbin files, but this database has over 800 tables in it - way too much for that process.

I have the .frm and .ibd files from an old, non-working mysql server (windows). I took out the hard drive and was able to get the data directory copied to my machine. How would I get them into MySQL on my development machine? I tried just copying the directory into the MySQL data directory, but that didn't work.

The old database is v5.5.4, and my version is v5.7.15. I'd be happy to install a matching MySQL version if that would help.

(edited for clarity) thanks, gh

I have the .frm and .ibd files from an old, non-working MySQL server (on Windows). I took out the hard drive and was able to get the data directory copied to my machine.

How would I get them into MySQL on my development machine? I tried just copying the directory into the MySQL data directory, but that didn't work.

The old database is v5.5.4, and my version is v5.7.15. I'd be happy to install a matching MySQL version if that would help.

I saw Restoring MySQL Tables from .ibd, .frm and mysqllogbin files, but this database has over 800 tables in it - way too much for that process.

My company recently purchased an asset that uses a particular maintenance program with a MySQL backend. That company no longer exists, and I wish to import the records into a maintenance program I wrote. I took out the hard drive, copied the data directory to my system, and now I need to import the schema into my MySQL instance, in order to later export it to a SQL Server database.

Now that I have the .frm and .ibd files, how would I get them into MySQL? I tried just copying the directory, but that didn't work.

The old database is v5.5.4, and my version is v5.7.15. I'd be happy to install a matching MySQL version if that would help.

I have the .frm and .ibd files from an old, non-working mysql server (windows). I took out the hard drive and was able to get the data directory copied to my machine. How would I get them into MySQL on my development machine? I tried just copying the directory into the MySQL data directory, but that didn't work.

The old database is v5.5.4, and my version is v5.7.15. I'd be happy to install a matching MySQL version if that would help.

(edited for clarity) thanks, gh