Thread:Project:Support desk/How to restore a wiki without a backup?/reply (2)

I can't seem to be able to run XAMPP (and thus Apache and MySQL) from the external hard drive, I guess because it's installed to the external hard drive (my old computer's C: Drive) but not to my new computer's C: Drive?

I already have XAMPP Portable running on a different external hard drive, and I'm currently using it to run a few other wikis, and the year-old backup of my main wiki.

If I try installing the old XAMPP containing my dead wiki to my new computer's C: Drive, will that installation conflict with the new XAMPP Portable that's connected from my other external hard drive?

Also, would I even be able to install my old XAMPP onto my new computer's C: Drive (considering that it's not XAMPP Portable)? If it helps, I could just install Apache and everything without using XAMPP, but I'm not sure if that would involve creating an entirely new instance of MySQL Community Server, in which case, I'd still need to import the old MySQL database into it.

And sorry if I'm being unclear on anything, I don't mind elaborating.