by Ken Task.
No such thing as 'walk through' in this case ... if the database was already corrupted on old server when you xferred the raw moodle db files to new server then .... ????? ... me thinks still corrupted.
Sort out the version is exactly what I tried to do ... but you say phpmyadmin has issues reading the DB which indicates it's still corrupted.
So sent you some Google'd info to look over.
**** Ok, old server won't boot into GUI ... that's fine and ok ... should have ssh access to it still.
You should be able to then ssh into old server and remove un-needed files ... enough to get MySQL on the old box to launch so you might be able to get a valid sql dump of the DB for Moodle.
Granted ... you keep saying it's stressful ... yes, understand that ... and am empathetic ... but can't do anything for you in controlling emotions here.
'spirit of sharing', Ken