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Problems installing 98se?
Im trying to reinstall windows 98se on my neighbors computer.
Ive done this several times in the past with little problems,
on my own computers. But on his im getting a message that
says corrupt cab cannot continue. I believe it is driver.cab
The other day i downloaded 98se and burned the iso to a
disc and i am getting the same message. So,im thinking maybe somethings wrong with the cdrom drive. Im about to get out the
drive and clean it by hand,but i dont like to open up computers if i
can avoid it, so i wanted to see if anyone had suggestions first
Hes a computer newbie,and he wants to learn on this one until he can afford a new computer.
I have all programs,to make boot disks.
Thanx everybody,turn out it was the cdrom drive.
I grabbed one of my spares and it installed fine,
4 Answers
- bambamitsdeadLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
Doubt that the CD would fail repeatably on the same file... but I remember getting a similar error last time I reinstalled win98SE from original distribution media. I think it was because I was using a cab from a different revision of win98SE...
So try installing from a self-consistent copy of win98SE (i.e. use a single win98SE CD to install everything). If you've got *your* copy of win98SE you can use that... as long as he's got his key it's all legal and above board. I think the 'all windows' DVD may have a snafu win98SE on it... I ended up finding an old win98SE cd from the bottom of a cupboard.
You can't really clean CD drives... they're almost disposable and the internals are far too fragile to take dusting.
Can you persuade your neigbour to pay for a newer OS? Theirs is now so old that all it's security limitations are well known and well compromised.
- 1 decade ago
You need a boot disk to install windows 98. Yahoo search it and it will give you a program that makes a disk for you. you need to have a floppy disk drive to do that though.
- sεαηLv 71 decade ago
copy win98se cd to hard drive
i mean in a folder in hard drive
best on another desktop pc !
during copy process, if some file is bad ... it will be reported
driver11 to driver20 are the driver cab files
do it & post / lemme know
if something amiss, we can work it out
but need specifics plz
- shane cLv 51 decade ago
hello,it could be a cd problem,however,it would use full if u check your BIO,S first,before u contact anybody else.hope this helps.
