[Bobboau]

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

[aldo_14]

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.

[Bobboau]

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

[Fury]

"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.

[Odyssey]

[color=cc9900]

• Autoexec.bat
• Autoexec.cam
• Command.com
• Msdos.sys

I think that's it.[/color]

[Bobboau]

I don't supose someone would be willing to upload theres?
google is giveing me the damndest time finding them

[mikhael]

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.

[Bobboau]

ok, I think I got it working again

[diamondgeezer]

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?

[Bobboau]

well people are more likely to by new wonderfull MS products if they are forced too

[Kosh]

M$ is removing any mention of 98 on their knowledge base?