How to manually delete a corrupted database instance
833255Feb 2 2011 — edited Feb 2 2011I have a corrupted instance in my database which prevents me from starting up the other instances.
This is a followup from another post, in which the goal was to fix all the instances. Now I would like to at least save my working databases and get rid of the bad one.
The corrupted instance doesn't have spfile, window service, I cannot login as sysdba. When I try to start up the databas I get an error message about spfile not existing for the corrupted instance. I tried to follow hints to fix that, but it didn't work so far. Maybe I can remove everything related to the broken instance, including directories, registry entries, and whatever else is making Oracle care about this instance?
This is on Windows 7, Oracle 10g.
Thanks