Re: Been there, done that....
Ahh memories.
Many beers ago, I worked for a tla from Massachusetts that does not now exist.
Sent to a customer who could not boot their vax.
Could not solve it on-site so took the disk back to the office and started to step thru the boot sequence.
Got to the part where it loaded dcltables.exe and it failed. File missing!
Spoke to the customer and he mentioned that they needed some space on the disk so they had deleted it!
Dropped another dcltables.exe in and the system would come up to the point where they could do some work (minus stuff that may have been added to dcltables.exe)