lost windows

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i have 98se pc that when it was rebooted it booted to dos.prior to this it was on-line playing a game.how can i get windows back?the h.d shows up in boot up
and in the bios correct.tried to run scandisk but said i needed extended memory driver.i tried the command "exit "at the C: prompt and in the windows directory too.

[TripleRLtd]

i have 98se pc that when it was rebooted it booted to dos.prior to this it was on-line playing a game.how can i get windows back?the h.d shows up in boot up
and in the bios correct.tried to run scandisk but said i needed extended memory driver.i tried the command "exit "at the C: prompt and in the windows directory too.

Looks like you've "lost" the system files somehow. Try the following: (Do you have 98se boot disk or CD: we'll need one of those)
1>After booting from the floppy or cd you get an a: prompt. Type c:\scanreg. After it scans and finds no errors, choose "view backups" and restore a registry from the day before the grief started.
2>At the a: prompt type: "sys c:"
Good luck
PS
I used to be the lead tech at Bloomfield College right next door to you about nine years ago. Say hi to Bloomfield. The big "R" is for Rutgers University.

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thanks tripleR will give it a shot tomorrow evening.

[NooNoo]

If sys c: doesn't work from the c: prompt type
path
and hit enter,report what it says please
then try
cd windows
hit enter
win
hit enter
does windows start?

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thanks noonoo for the added help and happy mothers day.i followed tripleR's
advice but the sys command didn't work.then i followed your advice and it made
it to the windows 98 splash screen.after the screen the error message
"device or resource required by vfat is not present or unavailable.vfat cannot
continue.system halted.
i searched old posts and found mskb#139063.
also here is the info you requested--path=c:\windows\command
thanks again

[TripleRLtd]

Did you try any of the "fixes" in the mskb article?
Path should also include c:\windows
So:
Path=c:\windows;c:\windows\command
That, however should not have changed on it's own. You can try "scanreg" to restore a previous working system registry, but do as the kb article states step by step.

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Did you try any of the "fixes" in the mskb article?
Path should also include c:\windows
So:
Path=c:\windows;c:\windows\command
That, however should not have changed on it's own. You can try "scanreg" to restore a previous working system registry, but do as the kb article states step by step.

no the extra c:\windows was not there after i typed the path command.i will do the as the article suggests and get back to you.

[NooNoo]

139063 is the fix for your problem.