title: how to restore my MYI, MYD tables from .FRM
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/879176/how-to-recover-mysql-db-from-myd-myi-frm-files">How to recover mysql db from .myd, .myi, .frm files</a>  </p>
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  <p>I have seen this question on here but to be honest cannot understand any of the solutions posted. I've just reinstalled windows vista following some problems and i DID make a copy of the entire 'data' folder for the old installation of Mysql. The original and newly installed version of MySQL was, 5.0.85. </p>
  
  <p>The original version of phpMyAdmin was, 3.2.1 but ive now installed the latest vers: 3.5.3.  Problem is i've lost some MYI and MYD files which i believe are the tables and index files. All the .FRM files are present and a, ibdata1 file (also, ib_logfile0 and ib_logfile2).</p>
  
  <p>The tables show up in phpMyAdmin in some screens such as the 'assign table level priviledges' drop down menu - so they seem to be still there but they dont show up in the left column which shows all tables in aDB. are they recoverable or lost for good?? I would appreciate any help in enough detail to understand for a newbie. I've setup WAMP before but never run into this issue.</p>
  
  <p>with thanks in advance ...</p>