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About Elliot Mak
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I can answer questions with regarding to Oracle DB (8i, 9i, 10g) installation, configuration, administration, Data Guard, SQL, and PL/SQL (Procedures, triggers, functions).
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I am an Oracle DBA, Senior PA, Project Manager, and Data Architect with 10 years of experience.
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BS in MIS
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You are here: Experts > Computing/Technology > Oracle > Oracle > STRTDB80.EXE problem
Oracle - STRTDB80.EXE problem
Expert: Elliot Mak - 9/17/2008
Question
Sir,
I have installed oracle8i in my system on windows XP home edition.I am not an expert. I am getting these error msgs.1.start database
middle ofthe processgetting msg 'ORA-205' cannot mount database.
2.from start -all programs- oracle installer- I tried to remove the 20 products
from C:\ORANT
which have been already installed receiving err msg ''dbassist.ins(0):FILE_NOT_FOUND
WHILE MAPPING dbassist
3.Enter user-name: system
Enter password: *******
ERROR:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
ORA-09243: smsget: error attaching to SGA
OSD-04101: invalid SGA: SGA not initialized
4.tried clicking ODBC ADMINISTRATOR got this
(C:\Windows\system32\odbcint.dll) is a different version than the administrator
(C\orant\odbora32\odbcad32.exe)
you need to install the odbc components.
Finally I get the msg" STRTDB80.EXE has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."
Will you please help me solve this.
Answer
Hi Subha
It seems to me that there is some issue with the installation. Since you are unable to remove Oracle installation using Universal Installer, you will have to remove them manually.
Here is what you need to do
1. delete all the Oracle entries from the registry
2. delete the entire Oracle directory
3. Remove all the Oracle environment variables and path
This should allow you to reinstall the Oracle.
Have you considered installation 9i or 10g or even 11g? 8i is really old and has been desupported for many years. In addition, 8i is not certified to run under XP.
Issue (3) is caused by Issue (1).
Oracle writes all the background information to a file called alert.log. You can find this file in the bdump directory.
With regarding to Issue (4), I apologized that I have not seen this one, it seems that it is related to your server specifically.
Hope this help and hope you are able to uninstall the software.
Let me know if you shall need additional help.
Elliot
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