HELP!!! I made a very dumb mistake running shopvac

[DragonBreath]

Ok, what i did was run shopvac through windows and it changed the name of my user and system.dat. I know this because I looked for them to do a size comparison and did not find them. They were there under the new name just not as a dat file. Then I rebooted and had to reenter my windows registaration # and then I get the add new hardware for everything. What I want to do is rename these files back to user.dat and system.dat. I cant get to my desktop to restart in DOS. With me not being able to start windows how can I rename them or am I ass out and have to reformat(hope not). Please help this dummy out. Thanks much

[Iman74]

Just press F8 to go into command prompt only and if you know your way around DOS then just search and make sure they aren't hidden labled as read only and do what you need to do. If you don't know DOS well then you might want to have someone assist that does.

[skips]

hi just put start disk in floppy go to command prompt only
type in scandisk c:\ this should find the alterd files as system
the other way is install drivers for cd rom and run scan disk from cd win98
or if you can start in safe mode go to my comuter add remove soft ware and
remove the ofensive soft ware

[jmatt]

Go back to a good copy of the registry .

Toggle F8 ( when , verifying DMA pool message comes on ) or Press
Ctrl during bootup , depends on your computor .

Select , Command prompt only .

After the C: prompt , type , scanreg /restore

Follow the prompts and select a registry dated prior to the problems .


This article describes how to restore a backup copy of the Windows 98
or Windows Millennium Edition (Me) registry

scanreg /restore
http://support.microsoft.com/support...n_SRCH&SPR=W98

[reboot]

Or copy and paste the red below, save it as "restore.bat" (including the quotes), and boot to DOS and run it.


@echo off
cls
echo Jim (reboot) Delong's svacundo.bat,
echo a Win9x/ME Shopvac crash recovery tool.
echo Version 1.1 Oct 5, 2000
echo ---------------------------------------------------------
echo Copyright (c) 2000 Jim Delong
echo http://members.cnx.net/reboot
echo Use Notepad to view this file's contents before running!
echo Who knows, you may learn a little about DOS.
echo Only you can determine if the file contents and
echo structure are OK to run on *your specific* setup.
echo.
:: This file is offered as-is and without warranty of any kind.
:: This file may redistributed as long as all header information
:: is retained in the final file.
echo ----------------------------------------------------------
echo This file restores the backups made with Shopvac.bat
echo in case of a system crash.
echo.
echo This file assumes you have kept the backups made
echo by Shopvac.bat, named system.dbt and user.dbt
echo !!!!!
echo Important! If you do NOT have those two files in your
echo c:\windows folder, DO NOT CONTINUE!
echo hit ctrl-c now to abort, otherwise
pause
cd windows
echo Now restoring your original user.dat
echo and system.dat files.
attrib -h -r -s -a user.dat
attrib -h -r -s -a system.dat
REN user.dat user.bad
REN system.dat system.bad
echo For redundancy, this renames your current (non working)
echo user.dat and system.dat with the .bad extention.
If exist user.dat del user.dat
If exist system.dat del system.dat
ren user.dbt user.dat
ren system.dbt system.dat
echo Files restored.
echo Windows will now restart.
exit

[DragonBreath]

Thank you all very much. I thought I was going to have reformat and start all over. I'm glad I have access to the web from work or I would have done that. Again I have learned another valuable lesson here. Again many thanks