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Old March 7th 05, 08:13 AM
aurgathor
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Default corrupt CAB file

I'm trying to reinstall Win98 on my roomate's P66.
A long time ago I copied the necessary files to a
separate partition, so everything is supposed to be
there. However, during setup I get the following:
'Setup has detected a corrupt Setup (.CAB) file.'
Argghhhh....!!!

Of course, in its infinite wisdom, setup doesn't tell
which file is bad, but it throws this error when the
meter (file copy progress) is at 22%. Can anyone
tell me from this which CAB is corrupted?
Alternatively, how can I find out which CAB is
corrupted? Is there an info somewhere on C: that
indicative of progress?

Said PC have a good floppy so transferring a CAB
or two shouldn't be a big issue. However, not only
it has an old SCSI HA, the SCSI CD-RW in there
wasn't working very well in Win98 with the drivers
installed, so copying the whole CD anew isn't easy
to do at this moment.

TIA


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Old March 7th 05, 03:24 PM
Don Phillipson
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"aurgathor" wrote in message
news:1110179593.f6a48f10ac8dca21d1f07430648583ab@t eranews...

during setup I get the following:
'Setup has detected a corrupt Setup (.CAB) file.'
Argghhhh....!!!

Of course, in its infinite wisdom, setup doesn't tell
which file is bad, but it throws this error when the
meter (file copy progress) is at 22%. Can anyone
tell me from this which CAB is corrupted? . . .
Said PC have a good floppy so transferring a CAB
or two shouldn't be a big issue. However, not only
it has an old SCSI HA, the SCSI CD-RW in there
wasn't working very well in Win98 with the drivers
installed, so copying the whole CD anew isn't easy
to do at this moment.


Your cheapest and fastest solution might be to
add a regular CD ROM drive that you know is reliable.
Then you can recopy all CABs to the hard drive
and reinstal as you please.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)


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Old March 7th 05, 03:52 PM
Ben Myers
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See if this is helpful.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140901/EN-US/

Ben

"aurgathor" wrote in message =
news:1110179593.f6a48f10ac8dca21d1f07430648583ab@t eranews...
I'm trying to reinstall Win98 on my roomate's P66.
A long time ago I copied the necessary files to a
separate partition, so everything is supposed to be
there. However, during setup I get the following:
'Setup has detected a corrupt Setup (.CAB) file.'
Argghhhh....!!!
=20
Of course, in its infinite wisdom, setup doesn't tell
which file is bad, but it throws this error when the
meter (file copy progress) is at 22%. Can anyone
tell me from this which CAB is corrupted?
Alternatively, how can I find out which CAB is
corrupted? Is there an info somewhere on C: that
indicative of progress?
=20
Said PC have a good floppy so transferring a CAB
or two shouldn't be a big issue. However, not only
it has an old SCSI HA, the SCSI CD-RW in there
wasn't working very well in Win98 with the drivers
installed, so copying the whole CD anew isn't easy
to do at this moment.
=20
TIA
=20

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Old March 9th 05, 03:41 AM
aurgathor
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Thanks for the replies. I discovered that with
the appropriate switches (especially /A) I
can use "extract" to test the CAB files;
did that, and then tr/ansferred some good
ones with floppies.


 




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