Still having problems with extacting files in Windows 98 SE

My apologies for bothering you with this problem again. I want to extract
the Net7.cab, Net9.cab, Net10.cab cabinet files from the Win98
directory/folder on the installation CD in order to access the vserver.vxd,
msnp32.dll and ndiswan.vxd system files. Like I said before, I'm working
from DOS with the aid of a start disk using the Windows support option 2
because I can't boot to Windows. When I use the various commands shown below
for extracting the cabinet files mentioned above, the files appear to be
extracted as they show up on the DOS screen with no error. But when I look
for the files afterwards, they can't be found anywhere on the hard drive or
cd drive.

Before starting, I created a Extraction directory on the root of my hard
disk for containing the extracted files. When I used the command below, the
files appeared to be extracted from that particular cabinet file, as the
files are listed downwards on the moving screen while it goes through the
process of extraction with no error reported. However, when I switch to the
C:\Extraction directory, the files can't be seen. This command is used
below:

a:\ extract d:\Win98\Net7.cab /L c:\Extraction

The output of this command would show 151 files extracted including the
msnp32.dll file. However, when I switch to the Extraction directory on the
hard disk and do a DIR, no files are listed, which is so annoying. Even if I
do a c:\Extraction "dir /AH" or c:\Extraction "dir /AR", no hidden or read
only files can be found either. I also tried switching to the CD ROM drive
and issued the command below:

d:\win98 extract Net7.cab /L c:\Extraction

The files again appear to be extracted but are actually not when you switch
to the destination directory which of course is c:\Extraction. Even omitting
the /L c:\Extraction from the above command will not achieve anything.
Furthermore, if I interchanged the positioning of the /L c:\extraction and
the cabinet file, it would yield the same result. I would like to advise you
that I have also tried this command below:

a:\ extract d:\Win98\Net7.cab\msnp32.dll /L c:\Extraction.

The output of this command reported an error saying that this file could not
be opened. Anyway, I didn't expect this third command would work. But the
first two commands listed above should work as the syntax is correct and
everything. At this stage, I have tried numerous combinations. There must
be some bug with this extraction tool when working from DOS with the startup
disk.

I know that the required files msnp32.dll, ndiswan.vxd, vserver.vxd, are
located in the Net7.cab, Net9.cab and Net10.cab files respectively in the
Win98 directory on the Windows 98 SE CD. Please refer to Win 98 SE of this
url: http://www.modem-help.co.uk/help/cab.html#l98. They are even listed
after issuing the first two commands above. However, unfortunately, these
files can't be found afterwards, in the Extraction directory on the hard disk
or any part of this drive for that matter.

To get to the point, the cabinet files appear to be extracted but they can't
be found afterwards in any part of the hard drive or CD drive. If I could
only get passed this step, I would be very satisfied. Can anybody please
tell me what I am doing wrong as it is very important to me since it may help
me to avoid a reinstallation.

Thanks.

Regards,

Martin Healy