KAK, I copied your post and sent it to my husband at work. He's a computer programmer/analyst. Anyway he said your dad could probably reinstall Windows 98 and that would take care of it but f he wants to try saving his files in DOS first he can try this.

Go to e drive and make a directory called backup

C:\> E:

E:\> md backup


Return to c drive

C:

C:\>



Copy cdrive to e:\backup

C:\> copy c:\ e:\backup



Might also try c:\> copy c:\*.* e:\backup

Hope this helps.