I had a production server running 8.1.6 on NT Server and all was fine.

Last week, I upgraded NT Server to Win 200 server with Oracle still on the system. After upgrading, I notice that the OracleServiceSID is hanging. The status of service is 'STARTING'. It has been like that for 2 days now.

I am forced to go to server manager and start the instance & open database. Even though the service startup is set to automatic, the database does not come up.

Is this a known issue and are there any workarounds for this. Pleasse treat this as urgent.

Thanks/Regards,
Nizar.