John Hawthorne wrote:

I have just recently converted everything over to Windows Vista. Things are going good so far, but I can't get MediaWiki 1.8.1 to even consider reading the old database. This is the same database that 1.7 wouldn't read either from the backup. Am I reinserting the database to the system wrong or something?

That's entirely possible, but to get any help on it you'd have to describe at least:

1) The type of backup you have

2) Your exact method of reinserting it

3) The exact error messages

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)