Hello.
Please, start a new thread when you're asking a different question.
In my opinion, it is safer to restore an archive into the datadir
of 4.0.23 server. Then perform a dump using mysqldump utility
and finally import it to the new 5.x instance. I suggest you to
read this page before
My questions are probably addressed in the MySQL documentation somewhere.
I've been reading the documentation on backup but I'm not sure if that is
the right tool for this situation. Perhaps there is a better place to be
reading?
Apparently my 4.0.23 database on my notebook is corrupted as one la
