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    Hibernate/suspend doesn't work anymore

    I updated my USB driver and everything seems to be alright so far. 8) I will probably upgrade my USB root hub from a USB1.0 to a USB2.0, just in case. 8) Thanks !
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    Hibernate/suspend doesn't work anymore

    Hi, I've recently started having problems with resuming from hibernate/suspend on my Thinkpad T40, the behaviour is inconsistent - it sometimes works, it sometimes doesn't. After reading the previous posts, I think it could be due to my USB roothub but I decided to install Bootvis to run a...
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    ORA01033:Oracle initialization or shutdown in progress

    I've just fixed it. Editing the sqlnet.ora file didn't really work, regenerating the password file by using the orapwd utility at the command line did the trick. I've got my old database up and running now !! Yeah !! Thanks so much to all of you and your replies ! [thumbsup] Now to back it...
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    ORA01033:Oracle initialization or shutdown in progress

    The error message is still the same : ORA01033 after I copied all the files from the oradata directory from my trashed copy to the clean Oracle install. Here's how I did it : - Did the shutdown abort - Set all oracle services to manual startup - Rebooted my machine - Logged in again, copied the...
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    ORA01033:Oracle initialization or shutdown in progress

    Thanks to both Alex and Turkbear for your replies. Unfortunately, it didn't work, ie I'm still getting that error message. So now I'm thinking, should I copy only all the DBF files from my trashed database over to this clean one ? Or is there another way to somehow get my old data working ...
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    ORA01033:Oracle initialization or shutdown in progress

    Hi, I'm running Oracle 9.2 on my Windows XP Pro. I'm pretty new to Oracle so please bear with me if I'm asking stupid questions. I trashed my previous running instance of Oracle and I didn't have a backup of it (stupid me). Hence, I thought that if I kept a copy of the whole oracle directory...

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