Crashed WinNT 3.51:Oracle SGA error messages,please help...

Hello all,

I'm trying to help with a problem on a Oracle 7.3 instance running on a WinNT 3.51 machine that just crashed and burned. I didn't set up the instance, but, and trying to work with those who did. Basically what happened....it appears that 3 of the 6 drives went offline, for what reasons, we don't know.  We have gotten all of the drives online again, and the server seems to be working again. However, we can't seen to get the Oracle instance up again. When trying to connect to it we get the following 3 error messages:

ORA-01034: Oracle not available
ORA-09243: smsget: error attaching to SGA
ORA-04101: invalid SGA: SGA not initialized

In the HTML help on the server it referers you to your OS specific documentation...which isn't to be found around here anywhere. So, could someone give some advice, or possibly point me to where I need to look to find info on how to fix this. This came at a really bad time (is there a good one?), but, a demo of a project that accesses this has a code freeze deadline this friday, and we need to have the machine up and running by the morning...

One last thing, in the NT services window, the services seem to come up ok, just that the instance can't get started. The inin.ora file looks ok...and the control files it points to seems to be where they should....

TIA!!!!! Kelly
kgrigg_at_diamonddata.com
cayenne1_at_earthlink.net

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