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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Bobboau on January 11, 2004, 01:29:07 pm

Title: important win98 files
Post by: Bobboau on January 11, 2004, 01:29:07 pm
long story short, my dad's computer has been goodly fuct, all the files in the root of the primary hard drive were deleted (due to his ignorence) what are all the important files needed for windows 98 to run, I can't remember them off the top of my head
Title: important win98 files
Post by: aldo_14 on January 11, 2004, 01:38:56 pm
Dunno, but it may be worthwhile noting that Ms are dumping win98 soon - and that means removing all the support material and update files from their website.
Title: important win98 files
Post by: Bobboau on January 11, 2004, 01:40:41 pm
all I've got to do is get it running again, how about everyone list the files in the c:\ root

or actualy, were does windows put deleted files
Title: important win98 files
Post by: Fury on January 11, 2004, 01:50:54 pm
"C:\Recycled" IIRC, it's been years since I used W9x systems. Not long enough howewer. *shivers*
(It's a hidden system folder.)

Remember that it will hold only 10% of the HDD's capacity by default, dunno how much your dad deleted.
Title: important win98 files
Post by: Odyssey on January 11, 2004, 02:00:06 pm
[color=cc9900]I think that's it.[/color]
Title: important win98 files
Post by: Bobboau on January 11, 2004, 02:48:32 pm
I don't supose someone would be willing to upload theres?
google is giveing me the damndest time finding them
Title: important win98 files
Post by: mikhael on January 11, 2004, 03:13:23 pm
go to bootdisk.com, make a win98 boot floppy and then you'll have all the boot files from the root directory right there ready for you to use, Bob.

IIRC, once you have the boot floppy, just boot the machine with it, and type "sys c:" and it will copy all the proper files to the proper places and set up the boot record properly.
Title: important win98 files
Post by: Bobboau on January 11, 2004, 05:26:36 pm
ok, I think I got it working again
Title: important win98 files
Post by: diamondgeezer on January 11, 2004, 10:38:37 pm
Are MS actually removing access to their updates for older Windows versions? I thought they just weren't making any more udates and stopping free tech support and what not. Surely it can't hurt them taht much to keep the old update pages online?
Title: important win98 files
Post by: Bobboau on January 11, 2004, 11:24:18 pm
well people are more likely to by new wonderfull MS products if they are forced too
Title: important win98 files
Post by: Kosh on January 12, 2004, 01:07:51 am
M$ is removing any mention of 98 on their knowledge base?