Issues with ee_wizard

Hi there.

I am in the process of upgrading a friends ExpressionEngine 1.4 to version 5.

I got into the back end to see what versions of PHP and MySQL the site is using. It’s using PHP Version 5.3.21 and mysql - 5.1.73-cll

So according to the specs, I should be able to upgrade from 1.4 -> 1.7 -> 2 -> 3 and then I’d stop and upgrade the PHP and SQL versions before going up to version 5.

Before I do the upgrades, I am running the Wizard to see if it’s compatible or not.

I keep getting this message: Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘PDOException’ with message ‘could not find driver’ in /home/comicsre/public_html/ee_wizard/index.php:254 Stack trace: #0 /home/comicsre/public_html/ee_wizard/index.php(254): PDO->__construct(‘mysql:host=loca…’, ‘[user]…’, ‘[pass]’, Array) #1 /home/comicsre/public_html/ee_wizard/index.php(131): check_db(Array) #2 {main} thrown in /home/comicsre/public_html/ee_wizard/index.php on line 254

I’ve replaced the actual username / password with [user] and [pass]

Checking both the log file and line 254 of the index.php it seems it can’t login for some strange reason.

I am not sure why I’m getting this as I was able to create a user and attach it to the sql database.

I also installed the version 5 of the wizard on my own personal web host and put in the username / pass and it logged in and worked.

I’ve tried using an existing user that’s already set up on the database with full access, but that’s still giving me the same issue.

Do you have any idea why this error might be coming back from the Wizard when the localhost, db name, db user and pass are correct?