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Old February 28th 08, 08:04 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.setup
J. P. Gilliver
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Default Can I restore Windows 98 from an USB external CR-rom drive?

John Dulak wrote:
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the contents of the "Win98" folder. A common location on the HDD for
these files is C:\windows\options\cabs. you can create these folders
from a DOS prompt as follows:

md c:\windows
md c:\windows\options
md c:\windows\options\cabs

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I've often wondered (and asked): _why_ is that a common location for this
purpose? (I can see the CABS part, as many - though not all! - of the files
involved are CAB files anyway. And I suppose Windows _might_ be a good place
to put it, though I'd probably choose somewhere else. But why options?)
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