PC boots to dos screen, after a possible virus.. What is the best method of repair? Do I fix the MBR with the emergency disklette? The world is full of willing people, some are willing to work, others are willing to let them; just a thought!

Details might be helpful If you're at the DOS prompt then it is booting The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing..if you can fake that, you've got it made.

First off I haven't yet seen this machine, the only details are as above, looking at it 2morrow. What Command Promp will I need to run win98? Also can I fix the os loading files? The world is full of willing people, some are willing to work, others are willing to let them; just a thought!

I don't understand what you're asking. There is no 'blanket solution' - so, best come back with further info The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing..if you can fake that, you've got it made.

A possible problem is a corrupted msdos.sys file. Try typing: path=c:\windows;c:\windows\command win

Hi Ho Yep its sounds like the 98 boot process is ending with a dos prompt. There is plenty on this forum about that, and its very likely its a damaged or non windows version of msdos.sys as ham30 suggests. Generally refreshing io.sys and msdos.sys files and then copying a good copy of window's msdos.sys (which I call the msdos.sys fix) will solve most problems. An example

Sure - that may well be the case, and a truncated MSDOS.SYS be my 'best guess' also. There are other possibilities - we could guess all day Why don't they make computers that will do what we think we want them to do?