From: george larson
Date: September 16 2010 12:43pm
Subject: Re: SOLVED!!!!Re: hard disk crash: how to discover the db?
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Uwe Brauer wrote:
>
> What I had to do in addition was to copy the ibdata1
> *then* I recovered the content of the db.
>
> Thanks a lot
>
>
> Uwe Brauer 
>
Uwe,

Congratulations!  That's great news!  Sorry I didn't know to mention
that step.  Where is your 'ibdata1'?  Mine is in '/var/lib/mysql' so,
for me, it gets included in the steps I mentioned.

I'm glad to hear that you figured it out!
G