Assuming you were smart enough to make the export in the first place :) -----Original Message----- From: Paul Drake [mailto:bdbafh@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 3:31 PM To: Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: OT moment of doubt a strange feeling is in blowing away a storage config and watching all those partitions and filesystems dissappear. long ago around 3 am on a botched 8.1.6 to 8.1.7 upgrade instead of removing HKLM\SOFTWARE\Oracle I fat fingered a delete of the key HKLM\SOFTWARE. windows don't work real good after that. a re-import of the registry will get you out of that jam. Paul -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l