dear lists, may be the case has been discussed here, but I need to refresh or if someone has extreme solution? I have 8 datafiles need media recovery, backup was taken per day with cold backup (NOARCHIVELOG mode). is there any extreme approach to bring those datafiles online? is there any tweaking by dd + od or hex editor? rightnow I have make them offlined drop. -- thanks and regards ujang | oracle dba jakarta | http://ora62.wordpress.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l