Cybermonkey
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Registered: 22nd Sep 02
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Hello, trying to fix someones PC at the moment, its an old piece of crap running 98SE. On boot up it would throw a message saying "invalid disk, replace and retry". went into BIOS boot sequence and changed it from C only to CD-ROM-A-C. now it loads up my floppy boot disk just fine, so i ran sys C: first to replace the command.com files and a few others, then it went back into DOS prompt. Typed C:\win to try and start it, but all i got was bad command prompt.
Ran a DIR query on C:\, and it returned a whole host of dodgy looking directories with smily faces for folder names, so im guessing its a bad virus.
I ran scandisk /all /surface, and it had loads of these weird looking directories saying they had corrupt file names because they were too long. Got scandisk to repair them, then it asked me to recover 1,xxx,xxx,xxx worth of bad files/clusters. Did that, and now c:\dir shows up a whole load of folder names with consecutive numbers, i guess this is what scandisk saved the repaired files as. Is there any way of recovering windows 98 from these recovered folders?
Would greatly appreciate any help!
Dave
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