you will have to provide more details than that for a better answer, but here is one Yes you can most likely recover your data using DUL, contact oracle support for this. But there might be different solutions for your problem, you'll have to post more info though. Version, errors etc etc Jack On 25/04/2008, Srinivas Chintamani <srinivas.chintamani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > I ended up with a crashed Oracle db, which refuses to start. I have all > the datafiles for this database and was wondering if it is possible to > somehow "Load / Import" the data in these datafiles into another working > database. If yes, it will save me quite a lot of re-work. Can somebody > help me on this please .... > > -- > Regards, > Srinivas Chintamani -- J.A. van Zanen