If you still have access to the oraInventory directory you try poking around in the installActions{datetime} logs. -----Original Message----- From: Neil Overend [mailto:neiloverend@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 7:58 AM To: randyjo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Which Oracle Edition am I running The disk array with the database data files died completeley (disk failure and stripe corrpution). I have installed Oracle 8170 on a new box and have recovered a copy of the database from a backup. So from a business point of view we're up and running again. The ORACLE_HOME directory was still accessible so I copied all the files off to my PC hoping that I could find some file that would give me a definite answer as to which version it was. The server guys have now stripped the box and are rebuilding it so I have nothing other than the ORACLE_HOME files I copied off. (So the Registry is gone as well) On 28/06/07, Randy Johnson <randyjo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So you don't have the original binaries and your database won't open. > Is that correct? > No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.9.10/873 - Release Date: 6/26/2007 11:54 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.9.10/873 - Release Date: 6/26/2007 11:54 PM -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l