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can't find cab files on install cd to restore lost files
I am running windows 98se (just installing it and most of my old stuff)
I did the upgrade from plain windows 98 to put a creative labs web cam on it. During the cam instalation had a lot of problems. Finally got it to work. But now at boot up it says I am missing vredir.vxd,dfs.vxd & msn32.dll. So i went out on the web and found the solution instructions. It says I should be able to restore useing system file checker. However it says I should find the lost files on my (OEM?) windows 98SE install CD in the win98 folder in the cabs folder. I find no cabs folder on the CD. Also said maybe I'd could restore from the cabs folder on the C drive. Also not present. I turned on show hidden files in folder options and looked manually and also did a find for the files in question on both the CD and c drive without finding with no luck. NOW WHAT DO I DO. I just don't want to reinstall all I had problems with the modem install at first and now the web cam both creative lab products. Not to mension all the time I wasted puting applications on and my old files back on. Is their someone or someplace that I can just get the files and drag them into the c:\windows\system folder where I have read they should be? HELP!!!!!! I am so sick of windows and associated things not working the way the manuals say they should! Makes me wonder why I every left my old MAC behind. |
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can't find cab files on install cd to restore lost files
A further note. I found an old cd I made from an old laptop that had
windows 95 on it and I found the three files in the \windows\system folder. Could I drag or should I use system file checker to copy them out. Or if I find my old windows 95 install CD and find a cabs on it. Could I use them or will all hell break loss because one is 95 and my system is 98SE? Will I be in deeper than I already am. At least I can boot now by hitting a key when the messages of lost files comes up! |
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can't find cab files on install cd to restore lost files
OK what gives when I did a search of my windows 98 install CD it could
not find the files. So I opened all folders, what fun and in net7 and net9 in the win98 found the files. Are these them the ones I need? And in a while when I use System File Checker are they going to install as I am told they will. What are my odds of more road blocks? Why did microsoft make it sound like cabs was a single folder I would find in the win98 folder and why would my search not find the files on the CD I looked with in the start menu? I did the search with and without the three carachter dot endings? |
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can't find cab files on install cd to restore lost files
also noticed that when auto starts the installer CD that is I click on
browse the cd and find the files I need. Then if I right button click on them it says extract. Is it smart enough to put them back on C drive where they belong or will I get a box asking where to put them. Which is the best way to get them back 1. drag them fron CD to C:\windows\sytem like I could do on an old MAC 2. use the system file checker 3. use the extract method mesioned above What will work without more windows crap happening? |
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can't find cab files on install cd to restore lost files
"DJW" wrote in message
ps.com... I find no cabs folder on the CD. There isn't one. Most of the CAB files are in /Win98 and a few more in /Drivers subfolders. Also said maybe I'd could restore from the cabs folder on the C drive. Also not present. Some installers create a folder /Cabs and copy to iit all CAB files a particular installation requires. You have to do this for yourself. The MS installation process does not do so. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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can't find cab files on install cd to restore lost files
"DJW" wrote in message
ups.com... also noticed that when auto starts the installer CD that is I click on browse the cd and find the files I need. Then if I right button click on them it says extract. Is it smart enough to put them back on C drive where they belong or will I get a box asking where to put them. Which is the best way to get them back 1. drag them fron CD to C:\windows\sytem like I could do on an old MAC 2. use the system file checker 3. use the extract method mesioned above SFC is your best bet if you have a completed fresh installation from CD. (SFC cannot add to its database on-line upgrades and bug fixes, which are numerous.) Only SFC knows the filepath destination for the various system files. The / File / Extract routine does not. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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