DOS commands?

[cookjei]

I'm working on a computer as a favor for a friend of mine and I can't seem to get past the DOS command prompt. That is primarily because I don't know squat about DOS command prompts. She has Windows 98 loaded on it and it appears to boot okay, that is until I am prompted to enter a command. Again, I don't know to much about DOS commands (I'm a little ashamed to admit) but I really just need to get to the GUI so I can pull her files off the hard drive. Please assist. Thank you in advance all.

MSI 865PE Neo2-P mobo
Asus ASUS V9280S 128MB video
P4 2.66GHz (533 FSB)
PC2700 Kingston HyperX 512MB
Sparkle PSU 300W
80GB Western Digital HDD 7200rpm

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[Crashman]

OMG, I'd help you but there's so much to know!

Well, I'll give you a couple commands:

dir gives you a list of directories
cd lets you change directory
copy lets you copy a file

You need to list a desination, say you have 2 hard drives, C and D, and you want to get files from the desktop to the D: drive, I'll leave the C: prompts up:

C:\
C:\dir

then you see a list like this

Autoexec
Progra~1
Windows

C:\cd windows
C:\Windows
C:\Windows dir

You'll see another list, including "desktop"

C:\Windows
C:\Windows cd Desktop
C:\Windows\Desktop
C:\Windows Desktop\dir

You see a list of files on the desktop. You want to copy the file called "Project1". At the prompt, use the copy command:

C:\Windows\Desktop
C:\Windows\Desktop copy Project1 D:\

And now the file is copied to the D: drive.

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[cookjei]

Thank you Crashman.

MSI 865PE Neo2-P mobo
Asus ASUS V9280S 128MB video
P4 2.66GHz (533 FSB)
PC2700 Kingston HyperX 512MB
Sparkle PSU 300W
80GB Western Digital HDD 7200rpm

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