corrupt cab files ? Sunday, March 12, 2006 at 3:08 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by greg (6 messages posted) I have a strange problem. I am trying to install windows 98 on a newly formated hard drive This is on a Toshiba Tecra 8100 500mhz with 64mb ram laptop and 10gb hard drive I got it used and it came with xp which was working fine untill I tried to install acrobat reader and I was getting corrupt cab error. Since I did not have an xp cd I formated the hard drive and tried to install windows 98 but I got stoped right at the begining with a corrupt setup cab file I tried to narrow down the problem and eliminated some of the ones already discussed here I copied the files to a partition that I made on the hard drive and tried to install from there in order to eliminate the cd but I have the same problem. I also tried loading other programs from different cd's with similar corrupt cab errors I also tried different linux version but they all had different errors. I also bought another larger 30mb hard drive and I still have the same problem I am trying to extract the files manually but I can only extract a couple of files before I get a corrupt cab error I am running out of things I can try. I was wondering if anyone came across this strange problem on a pc or especially on a laptop I ran scandisk many times without any errors This situation only leaves the memory or the motherboard combination. Responses to this message: re: corrupt cab files ? (bob wells: Sunday, March 12, 2006 at 5:53 pm) re: corrupt cab files ? (C K: Monday, March 13, 2006 at 11:36 am) re: corrupt cab files ? (JasperT2: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 at 5:41 am) All messages in this thread [show all] corrupt cab files ? (greg: Sun, Mar 12, 2006, 3:08 pm) re: corrupt cab files ? (bob wells: Sun, Mar 12, 2006, 5:53 pm) re: corrupt cab files ? (greg: Mon, Mar 13, 2006, 4:27 pm) re: corrupt cab files ? (C K: Mon, Mar 13, 2006, 11:36 am) re: corrupt cab files ? (greg: Mon, Mar 13, 2006, 4:46 pm) re: corrupt cab files ? (JasperT2: Tue, Mar 14, 2006, 5:41 am) re: corrupt cab files ? (greg: Tue, Mar 14, 2006, 4:14 pm) re: corrupt cab files ? (Lee: Tue, Mar 14, 2006, 11:36 pm) re: corrupt cab files ? (greg: Wed, Mar 15, 2006, 5:01 pm) re: corrupt cab files ? (greg: Fri, Mar 17, 2006, 4:19 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum