Reinstalling WinME on itself

[Alysia]

I got the VBS.Plan virus and it messed up some windows files that I want back. I REALLY don't want to reformat. It is hard to get them off the WindowsME CD as they need to be extracted and I don't even know where to look for what.

Will Windows ME install over itself? I tried it once by just Running the CD but the system froze.

Can it be done?
Thanks

[reboot]

Sure!
Rename win.com to win.bak.
Restart with the setup disk.
Install.

[stevensurprenant]

You should find SETUP.exe in the following directory:
C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\INSTALL

Running that will reinstall your system without the CD.
Your system should come back the way it was, only without the problems.

Second method:

If you want to extract files:
1) Go to DOS
2) type: cd C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\INSTALL
3) note the first cab file in that directory.
4) at the dos prompt type:

extract /a /d (Name of first cabfile in directory) (Name of file you want to extract) /L (Location where you want the file to go)

This will look in all the CAB files in that directory for the file you need.