How can I recover data from a USERS01.DBF file?

Question

So I had a Hard Drive die and that took out the OS and the Oracle RDBMS Installation (Oracle9i Enterprise Edition, 9.2.0.6.0 on WinXP). Fortunately most of the data in the database (9.5GB worth) was in the USERS01.DBF file which was on another drive and unharmed. I was also able to salvage the CONTROL01.CTL file, but everything else from the database is corrupted and irretrievable.
I've just setup a new machine with the same version of Oracle and I created a brand new database with the same SID as before. I then tried to do:
SQL> alter tablespace users offline temporary;
Tablespace altered.
(then I swapped the USERS01.DBF file with the original one and then tried to recover it)
SQL> recover tablespace users;
ORA-00283: recovery session canceled due to errors
ORA-01110: data file 9: 'F:\ORAHOME\ORADATA\MYDB\USERS01.DBF'
ORA-01122: database file 9 failed verification check
ORA-01110: data file 9: 'F:\ORAHOME\ORADATA\MYDB\USERS01.DBF'
ORA-01206: file is not part of this database - wrong database id
Is it even possible to do what I'm trying to? I had no backup of the USERS01.DBF file, but there should be some way to get at the data that is inside it...
any help or a pointer in the right direction is much appreciated.
thanks
-jeff

Answer 1

Whilst this isn't a direct answer, running any form of "recovery" will require archive logs, and it doesn't appear that you have archive logs related to this data file.
If you had your system.dbf file in addition to a control file and data file, I'd imagine might have enough to bring a database online using a "cold backup" type restore.
The specific error you show references the DBID in your data file does not reference the DBID in your control file. You don't appear to have restored your control file backup. This would make your existing .dbf files now not load, though a number of them can be rebuilt, not all of them can.