I fool around the system files and made a fatal mistake, some Win95 exe file got executed and replaced my Win98SE files, which of course rendered the PC not bootable.

I backup my C-drive by copy and pasted to a CD-R before and would like to return my C-drive back to that state, how do I do it. I will format C-drive if I have to because all the data has been backed up. Please help.

At A:> prompt, how do I get the computer to copy the whole CD-R to C: drive including the subdirectories?

well, probably something along the lines of this:

xcopy32 d:\*.* c:\

However, everything will be screwed because it's read only. You will have to go through the system and attrib everything to the proper attributes. this in itself could take a bvery long time not to mention a huge headache.

An option is to copy the windows cab files to the hard drive, say into the c:\windows\options\cabs directory, rename win.com to win.xxx in the windows directory and then run the setup from the cab files. This will reinstall Windows itself, yet keep the original files intact. The only real problem I see here is Internet Explorer. If you have a newer copy installed than the version that comes with Windows, then you will have to manually uninstall IE then reinstall it. Seems to me this would be easier then trying to get the attributes on everything set correctly though.

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First thing to try is
scanreg_/restore using a space in place of the underscore.

Copying the cab files from DOS can be done by using this command:

X:\>copy_*.*_C:_foldername

X being the drive letter for the CD ROM. The wild cards should make it copy everything on the disk, subdirectories and all...xcopy should work too...

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