Re: Upgraded from win98 to win2000 and no more oracle

Alex Thomas wrote:

>I was running oracle 8i (personal addition) on my home win98 computer I
>upgraded my computer to win2000. After the upgrade the computer no logger
>recognized the oracle install. I could not reinstall it or uninstall it.
>Can anyone tell me how to manually get oracle off my computer so I can
>reinstall it under win2000? I do not need to keep any data in the database,
>it was purely for "practice" and experimentation.
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Most likely the version of Oracle you have is wholly incapatible with Win2K. So you'd be best off
removing it and getting a nice clean copy of 9i by download or from store.oracle.com

Step 1: Delete everything under c:\oracle\ or its equivalent
Step 2: Delete everything under c:\ program files in the Oracle directory
Step 3: Very very carefully delete everything under ORACLE in the registry

And it would be best to backup the registry before you do this in case you make a mistake.

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