Vanishing characters after windows format?

[AdrianD]

One thing to add that I take for granted:

If you do this manually, make sure you click on the appropriate database you want the updates to get applied into. For HeidiSQL, a green check mark will indicate the DB being used. Navicat looks similar in that the DB icon thingy becomes green.

EDIT: Shendare below pointed out another thing I take for granted! lol, thanks S