How to restore my posts without backup?

  • My PC accidentally crashed in some reasons before I made a backup of the posts for the wordpress. Right now, I only have the Appserv and wordpress directories in my harddisk. I’ve reinstalled the Appserv program successfully. Besides, I’ve tried to copy my original wordpress 1.5 directry into the new directory and setup it all over again and got a new wordpress password for it. However, when I login wordpress, I have the empty blog. My question is that if I can replace any file or directory to get back my old posts? Thanks!

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  • So you were using your computer as a test site for WordPress and all the posts were saved to the database on your computer? Nothing was saved to your site server on the Internet?

    Then you are toast. Sorta.

    https://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html

    This is a free program that will recover files from your hard drive. It is amazing. It’s slow but it does the job. I recently had a couple crashes myself and wrongly deleted stuff and I tried a half dozen PAID programs that didn’t work and then I found this.

    It “might” help or it might be too late. IF you still have the crashed drive and it’s working. If not….you are SOL. Sorry.

    Thread Starter elego

    (@elego)

    Thanks for your reply but it’s not my case actually. My hard disk is fine but the motherboard was broken so I installed my harddisk to another PC as 2nd drive (drive D) and tried to setup my blog again. The problem is that I start WinXP OS in drive C even though I also have another WinXP OS in drive D, which has totally different hardware settings. That means I couldn’t retain all the installed programs in drive D. I have to install Appserv and wordpress all over again in drive C. The question is that I’m wondering if I can just copy some files or directories to replace the currect ones so that I can recover my old posts in the wordpress. I only care about the text content in the old posts. Hope that I can still have chance to get them back!!!

    Just restore your mysql database and you are done. All the posts and settings are stored there.

    The actual WordPress directories are expendable.

    Thread Starter elego

    (@elego)

    Thanks for your reply. I still have question that what you mean about “restore”? I’ve ever tried to overwrite the new directory “mysql/data” by old ones, but the consequence is I couldn’t login my newly installed wordpress anymore. I may accidentally overwrite the wordpress login info by doing this. Would you please give me more specific info. about directory or files that I can overwrite. Thanks so much!!!!!

    How to Backup & Restore Procedure for MySQL Database (for WordPress etc.)

    Hope that helps.

    elego – mysql/data

    What structure is this directory ?
    Do you have an .sql file ?
    Is the directory full of .MYI .MYD and .frm files ?

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