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Missing/moved directories in Win 98

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by farooqui66

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When PC running Win 98 was booted up several error messages came up saying that shortcut targets were missing. These executables have been loaded everyday as normal bootup such as the palm desktop hotsync manager, zone alarm firewall, etc. When I checked for the targets I found that several directories are missing! Particularly a directory on a second disk drive named D:Programs is missing. This contained many programs not critical to Win98 OS but still necessary for business tasks. Outlook also is missing some dll files. Can anyone help, please?

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by farooqui66

No, this is not a deletion issue. The drives themselves are messed up. There are two hard disks in this PC. Disk 1 (8 GB) had C: (active primary) then E,F and G. Disk 2 (20 GB) had D and H. Now drive H is missing, a big directory from D is missing, G has garbage (inaccessible)and some directories from D were found on F.

by farooqui66

Outlook is ok...the missing shortcuts were add ins from some programs on the missing directory (D:Programs). The main problem is locating this directory and fixing the drive partitions--without losing data. This may be asking for a miracle but I know there are miracle workers out there.

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