Hidden Database After Changing Windows Version

[yesfree]

Guys apart from this C:\xampp\mysql\data folder does xampp store some of database elsewhere, Cause don't understand.....I made a backup of the whole xampp folder to my external drive and installed Windows 8, Now i have everything intact but not the last and current project i was working before changing from XP to windows 8. What should i do to get this database.

[JJ_Tagy]

What was your previous version of XAMPP?

[yesfree]

Guys apart from this C:\xampp\mysql\data folder does xampp store some of database elsewhere, Cause don't understand.....I made a backup of the whole xampp folder to my external drive and installed Windows 8, Now i have everything intact but not the last and current project i was working] before changing from XP to windows 8. What should i do to get this database.

This thing making me go MAD.

[JJ_Tagy]

What was your previous version of XAMPP?

[yesfree]

Ooppsss ma bad....I transferred the back up i made from the external drive to my drive C.

[Altrea]

apart from this C:\xampp\mysql\data folder does xampp store some of database elsewhere

No.

I made a backup of the whole xampp folder to my external drive

Which XAMPP version did you use previously?
Did you make any other backups like database dumps?

and installed Windows 8, Now i have everything intact but not the last and current project i was working before changing from XP to windows 8.

I transferred the back up i made from the external drive to my drive C

How did you restore your backup exactly? step by step please. transfering can mean anything.

What should i do to get this database.

Depends on the answers. Right know we don't know enough to provide proper support for you.

[yesfree]

Which XAMPP version did you use previously?

This is what i have in the readme file for xampp root folder XAMPP Version 1.8.1, and V3.1.0 3.1.0 for the control panel.

Did you make any other backups like database dumps?

I remember making a backup of that database via phpmyadmin, Was early of November, So that backup is old.

How did you restore your backup exactly? step by step please. transfering can mean anything.

OK

I went to Drive C of my Windows XP --------> Copied the whole xampp folder to an external Hard Drive --------> Before installing the Windows 8 -----------> After the windows installation --------------> I copied the whole xampp folder from my external drive that i copied earlier to my Drive C of my Windows 8.

[Altrea]

Then maybe the contents of your \xampp\mysql\data\mysql_error.log will give some insight.

[yesfree]

Should i paste the content here.............?

[Altrea]

If you want to!? I don't know.
If you have the knowledge how to read the logfile you can maybe identify the problem yourself.

[yesfree]

Thanks Mod, I have to use the old backup...It seems that database is gone forever.