i wanted to clean my computer of EVERYTHING on it, so i used the command
deltree C:\
i thought i could just put command.com on a floppy and load it up again. i cant. how can i put command.com, autoexec.bat and my other startup files back on again? the command prompt just asks for the location of a command interpreter. i told it A:\command.com when it was on a floppy but it didnt work.

: i wanted to clean my computer of EVERYTHING on it, so i used the command
: deltree C:\
: i thought i could just put command.com on a floppy and load it up again. i cant. how can i put command.com, autoexec.bat and my other startup files back on again? the command prompt just asks for the location of a command interpreter. i told it A:\command.com when it was on a floppy but it didnt work.
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boot from floppy
A> sys c:
then copy you autoexec and config in c:\
reboot

: i wanted to clean my computer of EVERYTHING on it, so i used the command
: deltree C:\
: i thought i could just put command.com on a floppy and load it up again. i cant. how can i put command.com, autoexec.bat and my other startup files back on again? the command prompt just asks for the location of a command interpreter. i told it A:\command.com when it was on a floppy but it didnt work.
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You need a bootable floppy, which you should have made before deleting your system.

You'll need to get a boot floppy from somewhere. I think there's a place on the web that has images of bootable disks, or find someone with a system you can make a floppy.


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Walt

http://www.bootdisk.com

: i wanted to clean my computer of EVERYTHING on it, so i used the command
: deltree C:\
: i thought i could just put command.com on a floppy and load it up again. i cant. how can i put command.com, autoexec.bat and my other startup files back on again? the command prompt just asks for the location of a command interpreter. i told it A:\command.com when it was on a floppy but it didnt work.
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You didn't mention the version of DOS you're using.

There are ways to recover the "deleted" files, but only if you haven't copied anything to the drive yet.

I hope you didn't lose anything very important...




Melissa

Insert the cd-rom of win 95-98-me and boot from there.
In the menu install/boot choose boot.
When you get a command write:
FORMAT C: /U /S /V:NAME
of course you has nothing in your disk, so there should not be a problem to format it again!

Dos earlier from 6.22 should has their own install software.
If you has access to other machine,
format a floppy with FORMAT A: /U /S /V:FLOPPY
then copy the format.exe from where it reside in the other machine, then
format you hard disk with that floppy and the command before!
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: : i wanted to clean my computer of EVERYTHING on it, so i used the command
: : deltree C:\
: : i thought i could just put command.com on a floppy and load it up again. i cant. how can i put command.com, autoexec.bat and my other startup files back on again? the command prompt just asks for the location of a command interpreter. i told it A:\command.com when it was on a floppy but it didnt work.
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: You didn't mention the version of DOS you're using.
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: There are ways to recover the "deleted" files, but only if you haven't copied anything to the drive yet.
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: I hope you didn't lose anything very important...
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: Melissa
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So are you all giving up on trying to recover any files? going ahead and doing a format or sys will start to decrease your chances of recovery.

Do you have a spare hard drive available (or could you get one)? If so, we can work on recovering things.

Unless there's nothing good to recover?




Melissa

Whats the point in that...
S/He already said, And I quote...


i wanted to clean my computer of EVERYTHING on it, so i used the command
deltree C:\


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: So are you all giving up on trying to recover any files? going ahead and doing a format or sys will start to decrease your chances of recovery.
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: Do you have a spare hard drive available (or could you get one)? If so, we can work on recovering things.
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: Unless there's nothing good to recover?
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: Melissa
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: So are you all giving up on trying to recover any files? going ahead and doing a format or sys will start to decrease your chances of recovery.
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: Do you have a spare hard drive available (or could you get one)? If so, we can work on recovering things.
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: Melissa
I dont care about recovering anything, I just want to access the memory on my harddrive. I have a boot disk and command.com that works now (DOS came with my computer that I got a couple years ago with windows 98) so I just need to know how to get access to the harddrive now. A friend told me to use fdisk but it didnt detect the harddrive. Thanks for all your help. I appreciate it.
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