Crash installing backup & migrate module

Please help...

After spending the last couple of weeks getting to terms with Drupal and finally learning enough to get my site up and running I realized that I should install backup & migrate. I had it installed before but then had to reinstall Drupal due to some instabilities with i18n and didn't reinstall backup until today.

Of course, as luck would have it the module installation crashed my system and I'm really struggling to get back up and running. All the information I've seen assumes you already have a backup...

The modules installed included: internationalization, commerce kickstart, views, ctools, variable and a couple others.

Using myphpadmin I've done a check on the dbs which are reported fine.

I've copied the error below, any ideas??? Just don't tell me to start from scratch...

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Additional uncaught exception thrown while handling exception.

Original

PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away: SELECT s.lid, t.translation, s.version FROM {locales_source} s LEFT JOIN {locales_target} t ON s.lid = t.lid AND t.language = :language WHERE s.source = :source AND s.context = :context AND s.textgroup = 'default'; Array ( [:language] => es [:source] => Configure how content input by users is filtered, including allowed HTML tags. Also allows enabling of module-provided filters. [:context] => ) in locale() (line 683 of C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal\modules\locale\locale.module).

Additional

PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away: SELECT s.lid, t.translation, s.version FROM {locales_source} s LEFT JOIN {locales_target} t ON s.lid = t.lid AND t.language = :language WHERE s.source = :source AND s.context = :context AND s.textgroup = 'default'; Array ( [:language] => es [:source] => The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later. [:context] => ) in locale() (line 683 of C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal\modules\locale\locale.module).

Uncaught exception thrown in shutdown function.

PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away: DELETE FROM {semaphore} WHERE (value = :db_condition_placeholder_0) ; Array ( [:db_condition_placeholder_0] => 9735667064f3578d2737584.42637992 ) in lock_release_all() (line 269 of C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal\includes\lock.inc).

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'PDOException' with message 'SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away' in C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal\includes\database\database.inc:2139 Stack trace: #0 C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal\includes\database\database.inc(2139): PDOStatement->execute(Array) #1 C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal\includes\database\database.inc(664): DatabaseStatementBase->execute(Array, Array) #2 C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal\includes\database\database.inc(2318): DatabaseConnection->query('SELECT expire, ...', Array, Array) #3 C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal\includes\lock.inc(167): db_query('SELECT expire, ...', Array) #4 C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal\includes\lock.inc(146): lock_may_be_available('schema:runtime:...') #5 C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal\includes\bootstrap.inc(405): lock_acquire('schema:runtime:...') #6 C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal\includes\bootstrap.inc(427): DrupalCacheArray->set(Array) #7 [internal function]: DrupalCacheArray->__destruct() #8 {main} thrown in C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal\includes\database\database.inc on line 2139
Uncaught exception thrown in session handler.

PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away: SAVEPOINT savepoint_1; Array ( ) in _drupal_session_write() (line 206 of C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal\includes\session.inc).