Re: Upgraded from win98 to win2000 and no more oracle

"Alex Thomas" <alex.thomas_at_mindspring.com> 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.

Yep. Oracle 8i Personal Edition (PE) for Win98 is not certified for Win2000. Win2000 is a very different operating system under the hood and nothing like Win98 - despite the common look and feel GUI.

> I could not reinstall it or uninstall it.

You must install a certfied version of Personal Oracle for Win2000. Don't waste your time hacking a non-certified version and trying to make it work.

> 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.
 

The Big Hammer Approach is the only one that will work now. :-)

Go into the Registry Editor and hunt for all Oracle keys (use the word "oracle" or the old path of your Win98 OraPE installation). Delete all of them.

Then trash the entire Win98 OraPE directory.

Download a certified version (beg/borrow/buy the CDs). And install that instead. Also go for Oracle 9i instead.

PS. I think it a bad idea in general to upgrade from Win98/ME to Win200/XP. A brand new install is much cleaner and less troublesome. IMO.

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Billy