If you have no other solution and can sacrifice some of the corruptede = data, you can do: startup restrict mount; ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE '/u05/oradata/bla/bla.dbf' OFFLINE drop; -----Original Message----- From: sol beach [mailto:sol.beach@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 2:10 AM To: Oracle-L Freelists Subject: emergency rescue needed I had/have a test DB where a number of files got corrupted. I just HAVE be able to open this DB. I am willing to sacrafice the data in the corrupted files. What are the steps to do so? It is something along the lines of STARTUP NOMOUNT ALTER TABLESPACE ???? OFFLINE; DROP TABLESPACE ?????; STARTUP MOUNT; ALTER DATABASE OPEN; I've just looked in Metalink & did not find where this procedure is = documented. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l