I'm working on a friend's Toshiba Satellite 205CDS. The owner, and a buddy, were trying to load AOL. It appeared to them that they didn't have enough disk space on the 1 gig hard drive, so they start deleteing files, to the point where the system wouldn't even attempt to boot.

Since I received the laptop, I've run sys to replace the dos system files. That allowed me to boot. Trying to go into Win95, there was a whole slew of vxd drivers missing out of c:\windows\system\vmm32. Since the original cab files were in c:\windows\options\cabs, I was able to use extract and reload the missing vxd files. This got the system to the point where it tries to load windows. However, it stops and dumps me back into dos. No error messages displayed.

Searching around, I noticed that the c:\recycled is full. So, I imagine, everything they deleted is still in the Recycle Bin. Question: Is there a dos program that would restore all the deleted files back to their original loactions, like you can from within windows?

I don't have a recovery, setup or boot disk. oemsetup is in c:\windows\options\cab, but requires a setup disk. No solution there. If anyone has any ideas, I would be more than appreciative for any help given.

TIA -mk

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