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Trying to upgrade 11.2.0.3 to 11.2.0.4 on WINDOWS 2008 R2 but get "Can't find Registry Key" error

2670187Aug 6 2014 — edited Aug 6 2014

This may get a giggle or two but I have been administering Sybase IQ and ASE for the past 6 years and just got thrown back into a Oracle 11G environment on Windows 2008 R2 (Yuck) . I listed the issue below.

a) 11.2.0.3 is running and I need to upgrade to 11.2.0.4

b) So, I download the software and try installing it under a new ORACLE_HOME (I want to do a out of place upgrade not wanting to overwrite the existing %ORACLE_HOME%)

c) I get to the .... " Component Installation Failed, Specified Key Not Found".. I know it's a registry key so I do this.

  1. Stop all Windows services

  2. deleting the KEY_Oradb11g_home3 and starting over to no avail

REGEDIT

SOFTWARE

           oracle

                   KEY\_Oradb11g\_home1   \<-------------------- IS MY CURRENT Registry KEY for 11.0.2.3

So the installation guide says you can have 2 Oracle Homes??? Anybody know why I can't get passed this error?

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