11.5.3 on nt lost old oracle home

We had been running 7.3.4 server partitioned to 8.1.6 on NT.

Installed Financials 11.5.3 from staging area and tried to bring 10.7 backup. Will upgrade once complete category 2 steps for the apps. Eventually got it up. The problem is that now can not get access to a 7.3.4 database we were using for other apps on the same development NT system. Apparently, installer created a new home putting only 8.0.6 in it. My old home of 7.3.4/8.0.6 exists on disk but not to the old installer (not the universal one). I tried switching oracle homes but all that did was alter the path. Right now I have products installed in the old default_home which can not uninstall or do anything with since the installer is not looking at them.

I deleted the sid and tried using oradim73 to recreate it but it gets a illegal read or some such error. Probably because the registry says to use the home layed down by 11.5.3 for 8.0 databases and not my old oracle home.

Any ideas on how to get 7.3 back??

Jeffrey Beckstrom
Database Administrator
Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority 1240 W. 6th Street
Cleveland, Ohio 44113
(216) 781-4204 Received on Thu Mar 15 2001 - 14:55:50 CST