Server Crashed! How to retrieve MySql!?!

[spoonman]

We recently had one of our main servers crash. It has a motherboard issue so basically all we have left is the harddrive.

There are a couple very important databases here and I was wondering if there is any way to get the data back?

 

[OlegB]

1. You need just install MySQL server on some box.
2. Stop MySQL service.
3. Then replace the folder ..\MySQL\Data with the folder from old server. But backup the original folder first.
4. Restart MySQL.

From now you can manage MySQL server as it used to on the old server.