Re: Urgent -Formated windows and need to restore

From: Ana C. Dent <anacedent_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 04:03:45 GMT
Message-ID: <Xns96B1D642E88B8banspamoperamailcom@68.6.19.6>

"Ach C via DBMonster.com" <forum_at_DBMonster.com> wrote in news:52CFEA6E5AE36_at_DBMonster.com:

> Hi all and thanks for your replies,
> My Oracle version is 10g( I reinstall it today) and Windows XP sp2.I
> did
> not format windows,One of SAs did it because of an HW problem with
> motherboard that he did imagine is a Disk problem.
> He have formatted only C: so our windows was gone and all other
> programs
> remained useless.I have a backup but it is for about 1 week ago and
> so old and I don't want to loose recent weeks data.
> Today I installed a new Oracle without "create database using dbca"
> option ,
> at the same path as old one(I moved old oracle files before doing
> this).
> Now my problem is: How can I associate those old files with the new
> instance?

You been told before, restore files & open DB. For questions, email me.
Backups are your friend. Received on Sat Aug 13 2005 - 23:03:45 CDT