need to clear old database tables (I think)

Depends. If you have access to phpmyadmin, go in and drop the tables (assuming that is what you really want to do). Sure you don’t want to just run “upgrade” since the tables are already in place?

how would I do an “upgrade”?

also, I do have PHPMyAdmn, but when I choose the blog database it says no tables have been created.

Sounds like you have the db created without any tables?

Hi, I also get this message: ‘You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.’

I am using Mysql. Can anyone help me? I’ve tried re-installing wordpress but it leads me to the same thing…. to clear my old database tables.

I had the same problem. then I went to ‘upgrade’ –> https://yoursite.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php Did the upgrade a view times. After a view times it worked. Lots of errors due to the fact I used plugins (which I de-activated) that still had functions in my theme template somewhere. I had to delete those and now everything works fine.

eventually it turned out that I did not deleted all of the old wordpress files before upgrading form 1.5 to 2.0, That was causing the problem.