hi,

i gave the foll command

CREATE CONTROLFILE REUSE DATABASE FINSATI NOARCHIVELOG
MAXLOGFILES 5
MAXLOGMEMBERS 3
MAXDATAFILES 50
MAXINSTANCES 1
MAXLOGHISTORY 112
datafile
'D:\Oracle\oradata\finsati\temp01.dbf' ,
'D:\Oracle\oradata\finsati\rbs01.dbf',
'D:\Oracle\oradata\finsati\indx01.dbf',
'D:\Oracle\oradata\finsati\tools01.dbf',
'D:\Oracle\oradata\finsati\dr01.dbf',
'D:\Oracle\oradata\finsati\System01.dbf',
'D:\Oracle\oradata\finsati\users01.dbf'
logfile 'D:\Oracle\oradata\finsati\redo01.log' size 1M,
'D:\Oracle\oradata\finsati\redo02.log' size 1M,
'D:\Oracle\oradata\finsati\redo03.log' size 1M resetlogs

it says control file created. now do i start the instance using
startup force
or should it be something else ? waiting for ur reply.
thanks a lot.

satish