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ORA-27047: unable to read the header block of file

ZulqarnainApr 26 2007 — edited Nov 5 2008
My Windows 2003 crashed which was running Oracle XE.

I installed Oracle XE on Windows XP on another machine.

I coped my D:\oracle\XE10g\oradata folder of Win2003 to the same location in WinXP machine.

When I start the database in WinXP using SQLPLUS i get the following message

SQL> startup
ORACLE instance started.

Total System Global Area 146800640 bytes
Fixed Size 1286220 bytes
Variable Size 62918580 bytes
Database Buffers 79691776 bytes
Redo Buffers 2904064 bytes
ORA-00205: error in identifying control file, check alert log for more info


I my D:\oracle\XE10g\app\oracle\admin\XE\bdump\alert_xe I found following errors

starting up 1 dispatcher(s) for network address '(ADDRESS=(PARTIAL=YES)(PROTOCOL=TCP))'...
starting up 4 shared server(s) ...
Oracle Data Guard is not available in this edition of Oracle.
Wed Apr 25 18:38:36 2007
ALTER DATABASE MOUNT
Wed Apr 25 18:38:36 2007
ORA-00202: control file: 'D:\ORACLE\XE10G\ORADATA\XE\CONTROL.DBF'
ORA-27047: unable to read the header block of file
OSD-04001: invalid logical block size (OS 2800189884)

Wed Apr 25 18:38:36 2007
ORA-205 signalled during: ALTER DATABASE MOUNT...


ORA-00202: control file: 'D:\ORACLE\XE10G\ORADATA\XE\CONTROL.DBF'
ORA-27047: unable to read the header block of file
OSD-04001: invalid logical block size (OS 2800189884)



Please help.

Regards,
Zulqarnain
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