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by shantie

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I had to format a lgig hard drive and I am trying to re-install win95,& win98upgrade. Drive is fdisked and formatted. Win95 begins install then comes up with corrupt CAB file cannot proceed. I tried another Win95 disc, same thing. CAB files are compressed files, am I missing something in the bios to enable compressed files.Win98upgrade was already installed on this computer so I have done something when formatted. Socket 7, cyrix 266
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by thechas

The Windows installer extracts the files from the CAB files. There are no system settings that enable this extraction.

There is a hardware problem with the system.
It could be as simple as the wrong driver for CD drive.
If you are using a W95 startup disk, choose a different CD rom type.

If the drive is not connected to a standard IDE channel, you may need to temporarily install a standard Cd-ROM drive, or install the specific DOS mode driver for the CD drive.
The CD rom drive may be bad also.

Verify that all devices are properly identified in the BIOS settings.

There are numerous other hardware devices that could be part of the problem. CPU, Memory, Motherboard, Hard drive.
What lead to re-formating the drive? This couldprovide a clue as to what device is failing.

by shantie

Fixed, I set all bios defaults, (don't know if that did the trick) Put cdrom on different ide M/board connector as Sec.Master. Checked fdisk and reformatted, then booted up with a different 95 boot up disk(maybe the other boot up disk was the problem) and 95 cd in drive and all went well. Your suggestions did help, either cdrom or boot up disc had errors. Thankyou

by shantie

thanks for the first message I will try that tomorrow. I had to format as my friend downloaded an ugrade for Norton anti virus. When she restarted got a warning sign and asked to press enter then all she got was C prompt with message Norton start upfiles missing and would not load windows. I tried all norton rescue discs etc. plus tried to uninstall Norton via DOS nothing worked.

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