Re: Urgent -Formated windows and need to restore

Ach C via DBMonster.com wrote:
> Hi all,
> My windows has formatted and now I have only my oracle useless files.My last
> backup is about 1 week old so I want to restore datafiles without using that
> backup and just by datafiles and controlfiles and ...
> Do you know how is it possible? Can I install new oracle and create a
> tablespace with using old datafiles?
> PS: I was in archivedlog mode.
> -Thanks

Slow down. What version of Oracle?
What Windows operating system?
What did you actually do? Format the entire hard disk?

A lot more explanation is required before anyone will venture to offer advice.

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