Citing the MySQL documentation (emphasis added):
Stage 4: Very difficult repair
You should reach this stage only if the .frm description file has also crashed. That should never happen, because the description file is not changed after the table is created:
And why do they document it in the first place? Because, sometimes, it does happen. Doh!
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