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Can't find Precopy file

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by joea 1 view

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I just intalled windows 98 on a Pentium II Dell 300 mhz machine, and when i try to install any software or drivers it looks for C:windows\system\precopy and to insert my windows 98 CD. I insert the CD but it doesnt find this file and it wont let me skip the file the only thing I can do is Cancel, but this is a problem because I am not able to install anything. Can you help?

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by saihib

precopy.cab is located in the Win98 folder on your CD. What I would do is in C:\windows create a new folder called CABS. Then copy all of the *.cab folders from the cd into this folder. The next time you are prompted for the cd just browse to this folder. From then on Windows will always look to that folder first instead of prompting for the cd.

by eyesak

Good answer above, but if you do not have the browse option and Windows is looking in C:\windows\system\precopy, or X:\*.*, then you can just delete the location that is there by default and then manualy key in the actual location of the cab files, whether they are on the hard driver or the Windows 98 CD.

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