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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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"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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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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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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