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Hey Terry.. RUN!! ;D -- JK
Is there a chance the datafile was compressed externally with compress or gzip? Maybe decompressing it is all that would be required. I know that I've mistakenly tried recovering a database and missed decompressing a datafile only to have dbv say that the entire file is corrupt.
It's been mentioned that maybe the header is corrupt and maybe that is really the case.. however, I find it hard to believe that an entire file is corrupt.
Just a suggestion,
Shawn
Sr. Oracle DBA