restoring windows

[stenohead]

My son accidently deleted a Windows file, now his computer is crashed. I have a startup disk and we also have Windows 98, but we don't know how to fix the problem. Any help is appreciated.

[MishY]

Hi stenohead and welcome to Cyber Tech Help :)

Do you have any idea which file he deleted ?

Does his computer even boot at all at this stage ?

If it does, what if any errors do you get ?

Pls include the full error including any numbers, letters.

Thanks,

MishY

[zipulrich]

Take a look here (http://www.windowsreinstall.com/index2.htm).
Or this place (http://www2.1starnet.com/evictor/freshstart.html)!!

[ 15 April 2001: Message edited by: zipulrich ]

[stenohead]

Hi, I am the kid who deleted it. It wasn't just a file it came up and asked me if i wanted to delete C:\Windows\ and stupid old me pressed y. And it did it and now it won't even reboot up to anything.. it will start and then say some error message that says -> The following file is missing or corrupted C:\Windows\Himem.sys , and also The following file is missing or corrupted C:\Windows\IFSHLP.sys, then it says Type the name of the Command Interpreter (e.g., C:\Windows\Command.com. I'm really not sure what to do. help me please! Thank you
:confused:

[ 15 April 2001: Message edited by: stenohead ]

[smurfy]

Well, until you said that I was going to tell Zip off for suggesting such drastic action for a deleted file!

But now we know you have deleted the entire windows folder, have a look here at CTH tutorials pages and at the links Zip posted. You need to reinstall Windows to restore your system.

[ 16 April 2001: Message edited by: smurfy ]

[zipulrich]

<whew> Just averted Smurfy's wrath! <whew>

[stenohead]

grrr.. this doesn't help me because i can't even install windows because it doesn't work and i can't even boot up for the installation to work.

[smurfy]

Hi again,
Here is the step-by-step guide for what you need to do. http://www.cybertechhelp.com/pages/tutorials/reinstallwindows.html
You may be able to avoid the FDISK and FORMAT steps, download the bootdisk and install onto a floppy disk. Boot with that disk in your floppy drive and then run Windows Setup from your CD-Rom.
Warning: This may not work perfectly depending on what version of Internet Explorer you had on the system but at the very least will get you back into a Windows environment to be able to back up data and then start again by wiping Hard drive and installing W95 "clean".