no access to d drive and mouse (corrupted and missing files)

[gab2]

On a computer running windows 98 I began having problems with access to some files and applications. Then after defragmenting my hard drive I had no access to my D drive. Running scandisc revealed that I had some missing files. After restaring the computer I had no use of my mouse. I am missing vmouse.vxd (loads drivers for the device), user.exe is corrupt. All the files that I need are backed up. I have no utillities installed that can help me restore missing files. The computer is not linked to a network.
How can I fix this problem (I don' mind if I loose all my files and applications just as long as I can have full access to the computer again).

 

[clivo]

The first thing to do is to check whether your drive D is set up correctly: does your BIOS detect it at boot up? Also try booting to DOS, access the drive and check DIR and maybe run scandisk, just to ensure that the drive is prperly setup and working ok.
Depending on how bad Windows is corrupted, try booting in safe made and restore system files from >start>programs>system tools>system information>tools>system file checker.
Another thing you can try is run PCRESTOR.BAT from the Win98 CD (\tools\sysrec\pcrestore.bat). This will most likely restore the system with the minimum hassle. I have found this to work well when run from DOS; but this does mean that you need to install DOS drivers for your CD-ROM, which I presume you know how to do.

 

[gab2]

Thanx for the reply!
Bios detects CD. In dos mode I tried to access the dir of win98 cd but got CDR101:not ready reading drive D, tried with a different cd and it worked tried a third cd it didn't work. Why can it access certain cd's and not others.
(I tried out the cd's on a different PC and they work)
Booted in safe mode, tried system file checker, found corrupted file, selected restore, it asked me to specify location to restore from (what location should I specify?)
Tried pcrestor.bat in dos mode but it can't access my win 98 cd (it can access certain cd's but not others?)