corrupted cab files in 98 setup

I take it you have a Win 98 CD and not lots of floppies!

Try copying the WIN98 directory to your C: drive

C:
MD WIN98
CD WIN98
copy d:wind98\*.* C:
SETUP

This should install from your C drive
and scandisk should cleanup any corrupt .CAB
If the problem still continues then you need another WIN98 CD.

Hope this is of any use

Alan

The previous answer will just about solve your problems, but the toshiba has a hidden drive that upon start up looks for. It is written into the bios and is the backup and restore drive. When 98 reboots, the bios automatically looks for this driveand the related cab files. They are not there, therefore the report of corrupt cabs. If you change the bios so that it does not look for the hidden drive, your install will complete. Hope this helps. By the way Compaq is notorious for using thisstyle of restore also.

The previous answer will just about solve your problems, but the toshiba has a hidden drive that upon start up looks for. It is written into the bios and is the backup and restore drive. When 98 reboots, the bios automatically looks for this driveand the related cab files. They are not there, therefore the report of corrupt cabs. If you change the bios so that it does not look for the hidden drive, your install will complete. Hope this helps. By the way Compaq is notorious for using thisstyle of restore also.

Try deleting the .cab files. They can be reinstalled back, as they only hold the programs that will be installed when windows installs.

Hope this helps
Maozy

Check to see if the harddrive has LBA enabled, if so disable it.

I too experienced the same error message. Swapped out everything and finally swapped the CD drive and Win98 installed.

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