Re: Get Oracle 9i2 to run again after WinXP reinstallation ... ?

"Martin T." <bilbothebagginsbab5_at_freenet.de> wrote in news:1182926256.724770.157120_at_w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:

> Greetings.
> [Oracle 9i2 9.0.1.3.0, Windows XPsp2]
>
> The situation is as follows: At a remote site some windows system
> dll's got corrupted, the machine didn't start up anymore and they
> reinstalled Windows (XPsp2). Now in this situation everything (under
C:
> \Oracle) is basically still there on the disk and rather that
> reinstalling Oracle I would like to recreate the services etc.
> Now, I probably could manage to recreate the services, the Oracle
User/
> Group and the stuff in [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\...] as
> this is one of identical machines installed at several sites.
> However, there also seems to be a lot of Oracle related stuff under
> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{...}\...] and hence I'm not too sure that I
> can get the system working without doing a re-install via the
> installer.
>
> * Anyone ever done this on Windows (XP) ?
> * Any googlish pointers? Didn't really know how to search for this ...
> * Stupid idea? Just send them the install CD's by post and reinstall
> Oracle?
>
> thanks!
> br,
> Martin
>
>

You need to get all of the Windows automatic services set up. You could search the registry for all strings containing c:\Oracle and export the associated keys. This could take a while. I would go with (c) Just send them the install CD's.

HTH
Andy Received on Wed Jun 27 2007 - 12:22:38 CDT