WILL>>Sounds like you are not logged in as the user "oracle".

Robert Haycock wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I had a working 9i database on win2k and now I've just removed it:
>
> - Deleted all files under \oradata\sid1 (ie. All datafiles etc.)
>
> - Used oradim to remove service
>
> - Rebooted machine
>
>
>
> After reboot I did 'oradim -new -sid sid1 -pfile <some init file>'
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> Then tried 'sqlplus "/ as sysdba" ' and got ora-01301: insufficient
> privileges.
>
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
>
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