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So this is probably a pretty dumb question, but I had a old HP DV7 where I had xampp installed. Well the mother board went out and I still have the harddrive and I am trying to see if there is a way to recover the current databases I had through the hard drive and put them onto the new computer I have now?

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Stop any other Apache or MySQL (XAMPP) components that are running then rename the xampp folder on your old drive to xampp_old for example then copy over the whole xampp_old folder to your new drive and then run the setup_xampp.bat file found in the xampp_old folder.

This should then give you a working XAMPP installation.

Test by going to http://localhost in your browser after you have started Apache and MySQL using the Control Panel in the xampp_old folder.

When you open phpMyAdmin you will be able to export your databases and then import them later into your new xampp installation.