oradim73: won't create new services

Any ideas appreciated, I'm going mad with this one !

The scenario:

Oracle 7.3.4 on NT 4.00.1381

Stage 1 - move datafiles, redos and controls to new locations. With orant in original location, open up db. No problems.

Stage 2 - move orant to new location (different from all above files) after removing all products via installer cd-rom, removing high level orant folder, removing oracle key from registry,removing any oracle* from system/currentcontrolset/services and deleting oracle srvc and sid services via oradim73. Reboot server.

Problem:

New install from cd-rom to new location(no db create option) works ok. Attempts at creating new sid and srvc names fail with 'failure to create new service name' in oradim73.log. No pwdsid.ora file is created in orant/database either. Tried approx.3 times, following above but no change to error condition.
Re-ran installer and created default ORCL db which was fine, services created and started, db open.
Tried creating 'test' service name with just mandatory -new and -sid parms but nothing doing, same error.

Thanks in advance.

Terence Freemantle. Received on Thu Oct 15 1998 - 08:42:27 CDT