Originally posted by vijay8282
Yes,

Amit you have to recreate the controlfile. Otherwise how can the archivelogs be applied. as controlfile is the only place where info abt archivelogs is kept.

i don't think there is another way :(
Archive logs are not needed here since he has not lost any datafiles. By recreating the controlfiles, all the SCNs in redo logs, datafiles are synchronized and the info recorded in the controlfile.