Hello All,
Myself and several others are at our wits end on this one. I have a stand alone Win98 SE laptop in which *.vxd in \Windows\System was accidently deleted and sent to the recycle bin. As you would expect, the machine can't even boot safe mode. It does boot just fine in "safe mode command prompt only."
So how do I restore these files from the recycle bin if I can't even boot into GUI safe mode? Is there a command prompt utility somewhere for this? If you're not aware, Windows renames every file that is moved into the recycle bin. You can't just copy the files back to their original location. See Q136517 in the MS KB for details.
Since it's a laptop, I can't hook the hard drive up as a slave to anything. I was going to try to copy the contents of the laptop's C:\recycled folder onto a desktop machine and then drag the files out of the desktop's recycle bin to recover their proper names. But, of course, the laptop's floppy drive is boke and can't write to a disk properly. I don't have any parallel port storage devices available either. Ideas?
TIA,
-Bill
Myself and several others are at our wits end on this one. I have a stand alone Win98 SE laptop in which *.vxd in \Windows\System was accidently deleted and sent to the recycle bin. As you would expect, the machine can't even boot safe mode. It does boot just fine in "safe mode command prompt only."
So how do I restore these files from the recycle bin if I can't even boot into GUI safe mode? Is there a command prompt utility somewhere for this? If you're not aware, Windows renames every file that is moved into the recycle bin. You can't just copy the files back to their original location. See Q136517 in the MS KB for details.
Since it's a laptop, I can't hook the hard drive up as a slave to anything. I was going to try to copy the contents of the laptop's C:\recycled folder onto a desktop machine and then drag the files out of the desktop's recycle bin to recover their proper names. But, of course, the laptop's floppy drive is boke and can't write to a disk properly. I don't have any parallel port storage devices available either. Ideas?
TIA,
-Bill
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