"Robert" wrote in message
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In an effort to open up space on one of our win98se machines my children
(they go back to school Monday) started to delete things "they" thought
were
not needed. I'm not totally sure what it was they deleted but I now have
the
following:

The System:
Pentium w/MMX
233 mhz
92 ram
win98se

When I try to boot up we get the following. "Invalid System Disk." I
tried
to get it going with a win98 boot disk and read in the help file that if
I
saw the error above that I should run "SYS C:" I did this and it reported
back that the "System Transferred". I then shut the computer off (with
the
power switch), took out the boot disk, and attempted to restart the
computer
only to get this: "c:\" and when attempting in safe mode this: "Windows
is
bypassing your startup files". I have also run Scandisk (off of the boot
disk) and it found no errors on "C". Is it possible to get this unit
running
again?

Perhaps, but it probably will not be easy IF it is even possible.

How old are these kids? Are they old enough to be aware of the
Recycle Bin? If so, did they empty it? If not, boot to DOS again
and run a DIR of C:\RECYCLED.

But first, type ATTRIB -H C:\RECYCLED to remove the Hidden
attribute from the Bin, otherwise it will show up empty
even if there are a ton of files in it.

Your next problem will be to find out what they are,
as they will not show up with their proper names,
but we can cross that bridge when and if we get there.

[I would also ground the lil darlins for a week,
no TV, no Playstation 2, no computer privileges.
It won't hurt them. They'll just scream like it does.].