Upgraded from win98 to win2000 and no more oracle

[Alex Thomas]

I was running oracle 8i (personal addition) on my home win98 computer I
upgraded my computer to win2000. After the upgrade the computer no logger
recognized the oracle install. I could not reinstall it or uninstall it.
Can anyone tell me how to manually get oracle off my computer so I can
reinstall it under win2000? I do not need to keep any data in the database,
it was purely for "practice" and experimentation.

[Daniel Morgan]

Alex Thomas wrote:
I was running oracle 8i (personal addition) on my home win98 computer Iupgraded my computer to win2000. After the upgrade the computer no loggerrecognized the oracle install. I could not reinstall it or uninstall it.Can anyone tell me how to manually get oracle off my computer so I canreinstall it under win2000? I do not need to keep any data in the database,it was purely for "practice" and experimentation.
Most likely the version of Oracle you have is wholly incapatible with
Win2K. So you'd be best off
removing it and getting a nice clean copy of 9i by download or from
store.oracle.com

Step 1: Delete everything under c:\oracle\ or its equivalent
Step 2: Delete everything under c:\ program files in the Oracle directory
Step 3: Very very carefully delete everything under ORACLE in the registry
found at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE

And it would be best to backup the registry before you do this in case
you make a mistake.

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[Hans Forbrich]

Alex Thomas wrote: I was running oracle 8i (personal addition) on my home win98 computer I upgraded my computer to win2000. After the upgrade the computer no logger recognized the oracle install. I could not reinstall it or uninstall it. Can anyone tell me how to manually get oracle off my computer so I can reinstall it under win2000? I do not need to keep any data in the database, it was purely for "practice" and experimentation.

There is really no good reason to ask the question on several forums.
Especially since you will now have to look at all the forums to get
various answers. Many of us won't cross-post replies since we end up
reading all groups anyways.

Daniel's reply here is pretty much to the point. Mine elsewhere tells
you where to look as the next step.

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