Re: corrupted 8i? how to fix please?

To be honest, this sounds more like plain and simple FAT corruption of the hard disk rather than *necessarily* being a mangled installation. It could very well turn into that though. Run a SCANDISK and see what comes up. Your only way of knowing whether Oracle itself is OK is if it will startup/shutdown on command without spewing all over the ALERT.LOG - as previous respondent has said. You could also try running an export of the database to check the structure is OK.

Other than that, you'll just be guessing. FAT tends to have problems in groups of clusters - and if she wasn't doing anything in Oracle at the time, I'd be willing to guess it's fine. The fact she lost a shortcut probably suggests windows was doing something in that area of the disk (where startmenu/desktop icons are stored) - hopefully, well away from the oracle database/program areas.

Of course, if you'd been running NT with NTFS, you may stand less chance of this happening... ;-)

"Mart Hurst" <Wayfarergenesis_at_worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:G1Xl6.3422$Ea1.241250_at_bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the responses!
>
> I was posting the problem for a fellow student (she is taking the
 beginning
> Oracle Database Concepts class I took last year, I am in PL now). I had
> installed her 8i for her, and the database the teacher provides two months
> ago and things have been fine. She called me last night with the info I
> posted -- she does not have access to newsgroups so I posted because I do
> know there are problems with un-installing 8i -- this may be because the
> version that comes with the Course Technology Database Systems book is a
> "student" version, but it has been reported by several students who tried
> installing without reading through the readme files first (I actually
 print
> them off) and then confirmed by the teacher -- so un-installing 8i
 involves
> going into the registry and deleting files which I'm not anxious to try
> without guidence..
>
> I went over to her house today, and while I am not sure what had happened
> yesterday, the results were that the SQL Plus option in the programs menu
> had been deleted. I reinstalled that back for her and went through the
> database, form builder etc looking for any obvious errors. I did not find
> any other errors, and it seems to be working correctly. That doesn't
> neccasrily mean there aren't any problems or corrupted files, but I was
 able
> to fix the obvious. If I have to go back because problems do surface it
 is
> good to know there are options and I very much appreciate your help.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Mart
>
>
>
Received on Mon Feb 26 2001 - 11:03:12 CST