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
2007-03-06 03:54:50 · 4 answers · asked by Matthew D 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
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.
2007-03-06 04:52:06 · update #1
Thanx everybody,turn out it was the cdrom drive.
I grabbed one of my spares and it installed fine,
2007-03-08 04:14:49 · update #2
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.
2007-03-06 04:07:15 · answer #1 · answered by bambamitsdead 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2007-03-06 04:21:31 · answer #2 · answered by Matt!!! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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
2007-03-06 05:37:23 · answer #3 · answered by sεαη 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
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.
2007-03-06 04:10:57 · answer #4 · answered by shane c 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋