DOS Commands in Windows 98

[Mark Haney]

catalina wrote:
> Thank you so very much for your offer to help.
> Not sure what "off list" means , or how to proceed.
> 

Off list means emailing me at my direct email address.

> What I am trying to do is to access my data base on an old PC 91997
> Toshiba Satellite 220 CDS, with a windows 98 4.10.2222 Rev A .
> Trying to make space to install Ubuntu I erased all kinds of Windows
> files , among them the windows utilities / accesories. 

Uh, yeah this is gonna be a problem.  The DOS binaries are almost all 
contained in the Windows directory.  So it's likely that what you 
removed could have deleted some of the DOS binaries.  The cd and exit 
commands are built into the shell and so don't have binaries associated 
with them.

If you aren't familiar with Dual booting (or linux/unix in general) it 
might have made more sense to ask on-list about ways to setup dual boot, 
or google/research it more before you just randomly deleted stuff.

Your best bet here might be to reinstall Win98 and see if you can get to 
the files that way.

Honestly, you're still not giving me a lot to go on.  DOS won't get you 
the deleted files back.  There is not DOS based uninstall command build 
into the Win98 version of DOS (that I recall anyway). Not to mention 
it's likely if you were to recover them, you might only get part of the 
file back and that would be useless with binaries.

What database are you trying to access on this laptop?  Certain DBs did 
come with DOS type clients and menus back in the Win98 days, but it 
depends on which one you have data in.

If the data was critical, did you not have a backup made?


By using DOS I am
> trying to get into the Window Programs and trying to recuperate them.
> Recuperate them so I can install any Linux....preferably Ubuntu as I
> have the CD.
> Unfortunately I can not get DOS to work....only some COMMANDS like
> cd ...exit .... are acknowledged. There is nothing Wrong with DOS...I
> can run SCANDISK  and so forth  BUT not much more .
> I wished I could junk Windows and try to learn Unix.
> I have another Laptop with W Vista on which I downloaded Ubuntu, so at
> least I can cross reference Info from the Web.
> Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated.
> With thanks and kind regards
> Suuri Suomi
> 
> 

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