4.1. Select and Repair Database

To recover data from a corrupt/damaged MySQL database, you need to select the corrupt/damaged database. Stellar Repair for MySQL gives you an option to select database. User can select database(s) from different locations. User can browse to locate the desired database(s).

To select the database:

• Run Stellar Repair for MySQL.

• Select Data Folder window appears when the software launches. Alternatively, you can also open Select Data Folder window from File menu.

• Click Browse, Browse for Folder screen appears.

• Select a data folder that you want to repair and click OK.

• List of database files appears as shown below.

Note: By default all database files are selected, you can uncheck the check boxes which are not required.

• Click Repair to start the repairing process.

• After the repairing process is completed, Repair Complete dialog box appears with message "Selected database repaired successfully".

• Click OK to complete the process.

After the repair process is completed, the software provides a preview of the repaired files. See Preview Repaired Database, for more details.