Reinstalled WAMP, Wordpress Tables Not Found BUT Are in PHPMYADMIN
Yes, the problem were the old files:
ib_logfile0, ib_logfile1, ibdata1.One should also backup them, close WAMP, copy, paste and remove the ones generated by the installation. After that phpMyAdmin recognises the tables we had prior to the reinstallation of WAMP!
When you reinstalled WAMP you I assume put it into a new folder or you backed up the original wamp install.
If you did then you can copy the oldwamp\bin\mysql\mysqlx.y.z\data\database_name into the newwamp\bin\mysql\mysqlx.y.z\data\database_name
Assuming you installed the same version this should be all you need to do.
For future reference or when you upgrade to Windows 8.1 all you actually needed to do, assuming the \wamp folder is not destroyed by the upgade is reinstall the Apache(wampapache) and MySQL(awampmysql) services, which are messed up by the install.
So just start wampmanager and then :-
left click wampmanager -> Apache -> Service -> Install Serviceleft click wampmanager -> MySQL -> Service -> Install Service