Hi all.
I have a developer machine that was based on Windows XP SP3 - 32bit and hosted an instance of MySQL 5.1.48
We recently upgraded the hardware of the former machine and we got a new one exposing Windows 7, 64bit. So we thought about using the same MySQL version, but installed the 64bit version instead of the 32bit.
We installed MySQL and then pointed the new instance to the datafiles (residing on another disk/partition) of the old instance.
The instance fails to start complaining that it cannot open the ibdata1 file that already exists. Doing a trace with procmon it seems that it tries to create the file although it exists.
Installing the 32bit version and pointing it to the existing datafiles works fine.
Any clue if this problem can be solved or if it's not possible to use a 32bit instance datafile with the 64bit version?
Thanks in advance.
I have a developer machine that was based on Windows XP SP3 - 32bit and hosted an instance of MySQL 5.1.48
We recently upgraded the hardware of the former machine and we got a new one exposing Windows 7, 64bit. So we thought about using the same MySQL version, but installed the 64bit version instead of the 32bit.
We installed MySQL and then pointed the new instance to the datafiles (residing on another disk/partition) of the old instance.
The instance fails to start complaining that it cannot open the ibdata1 file that already exists. Doing a trace with procmon it seems that it tries to create the file although it exists.
Installing the 32bit version and pointing it to the existing datafiles works fine.
Any clue if this problem can be solved or if it's not possible to use a 32bit instance datafile with the 64bit version?
Thanks in advance.