Win98se Install Issue: Need To Reset Everything But Keep Extra Programs

Hi! My Win98SE tower at my mother's house is not booting Windows properly. Worse yet, the last time I was there, I accidentally deleted almost everything in the root directory of the C: drive. :'( I need to reinstall Windows and reset and restore all the drivers and such while keeping the other applications and data intact. How do I do that? BTW, I have extracted and stored the contents of the Win98SE OEM ISO in the C:\WIN98SET folder.

 

You can try reinstalling windows over itself, read this it tells you about it.
https://www.techguy.org/threads/solved-how-do-i-reinstalling-win98-without-reformatting.119884/

 

Thank you. I need to try it the next time I'm at my mother's house.