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Where Is the Recycle Bin?

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MasterMind

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At the command prompt in Win98 DOS.

The problem is I deleted a hidden file that had a WinAmp icon and now Windows wont load. I had a problem with WinAmp the other day and had to reassociate extensions. Somehow that file must have been reassociated with the WinAmp icons even though it's a system file.

The file is still in the Recycle Bin but I cant load Windows to restore it. I cant find the Recycle Bin in DOS so I'm stuck.
 
At the DOS Prompt change to the drive that you wish to access the recycle bin on.

Being that it is a hidden directory it won't show up, nor will the files in the directory.

CD \RECYCLED

So apply the following command to make them visible from within the directory:

ATTRIB -R -S -H *.*


Now you'll be able to use regular directory and file manipulation commands from the Dos Prompt on recycled files.

 
I've been trying to remember what the file was (I deleted it without giving it much thought) and I think it was a Win2K file. It was something like NTNTFS and if I had any brains I wouldnt have deleted it. But if anyone is running a dual boot and would want to email it to me it might save me a huge headache.

Thanks for any help.
 
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