re: Operating System Not Found Saturday, December 30, 2006 at 7:57 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by dhm (966 messages posted) Indeed I had that happen once. So last things first, I cured it with "SYS C:". But it took a bit more than that. I had been installing a digital camera that an office supply store was getting rid of at a steep discount. The version of the software bundled with it made the false assumption that everyone left the My Documents icon on the Desktop. I didn't. The company had 2 sets of instructions on how to put it back on the Desktop. Against my usual instincts to figure it out for myself and do it my way, on a whim I decided to follow the instructions. One of the sets of instructions was an OOOPS! that left out a step. Following it, I ended up with the "OPERATING SYSTEM NOT FOUND". Further investigation with "DIR C:" showed that every file had been erased from the root folder. Fortunately, there was nothing else erased. I had backup copies of my AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS in other folders so I was back in operation in half an hour. And it was a great stimulus to my adrenalin. And the sweating cleaned out my pores. In another half hour I had figured out a way for Irfanview to directly call their TWAIN driver. It would be interesting to have carefully traced the steps that exactly can erase the C: files like that, but I don't want to. For $20 it was a nice little camera and my family liked the quality of the pix I emailed them. Written in response to: re: Operating System Not Found (gewg_: Thursday, December 28, 2006 at 9:47 pm) Responses to this message: re: Operating System Not Found (Sam Johnson: Saturday, December 30, 2006 at 8:25 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Operating System Not Found (Sam Johnson: Thu, Dec 28, 2006, 6:54 pm) re: Operating System Not Found (gewg_: Thu, Dec 28, 2006, 9:47 pm) re: Operating System Not Found (Sam Johnson: Fri, Dec 29, 2006, 5:49 am) re: Operating System Not Found (Sam Johnson: Fri, Dec 29, 2006, 6:47 pm) No DOS prompt; blinking cursor only--and hard to get that (gewg_: Fri, Dec 29, 2006, 7:21 pm) re: No DOS prompt; blinking cursor only--and hard to get that (Sam Johnson: Fri, Dec 29, 2006, 7:36 pm) re: No DOS prompt; blinking cursor only--and hard to get that (gewg_: Fri, Dec 29, 2006, 8:20 pm) re: No DOS prompt; blinking cursor only--and hard to get that (Sam Johnson: Fri, Dec 29, 2006, 8:31 pm) re: Operating System Not Found (dhm: Sat, Dec 30, 2006, 7:57 am) re: Operating System Not Found (Sam Johnson: Sat, Dec 30, 2006, 8:25 pm) re: Operating System Not Found (Sam Johnson: Sun, Dec 31, 2006, 8:08 am) re: Operating System Not Found (dhm: Sun, Dec 31, 2006, 2:06 pm) re: Operating System Not Found (Sam Johnson: Mon, Jan 1, 2007, 10:01 am) re: Operating System Not Found (gewg_: Mon, Jan 1, 2007, 10:43 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum