I was wondering if anyone can shed some light on a problem I seem to be having.

Basically Windows will not load in either normal mode or safe mode.

A message shows about 7/8 files are missing comes up on startup, along with a 'BEEP' sound. The last two of them files I can see as missing are (as the others have scrolled from the top of the screen):

C:\ WINDOWS\DBLBUFF.SYS
C:\WINDOWS\IFSHELP.SYS

Also a message saying "Cannot find WIN.CON, unable to continue loading windows"

And another message saying:

"Warning: Windows has detected a registry/configuration error. Choose, Command prompt only and run SCANREG"

When I try to run SCANREG at the command prompt it comes up with 'bad command'

Last night I was using my PC without any problems and in the background Zone Alam was running some sort of check. I left my PC for a bit and when I came back, I had a white/grey screen......no desktop. I re-booted my PC and ever since then it has not been able to boot back into Windows 98.

I also tried running SCANREG from within the Windows/System directory, but again the same error message 'bad command'. I also tried booting up with my windows bootup disk, but again no luck with that.

Does anyone know what else I can try to get my PC back to how it was?

Thanks in advance