I have a 433mhz amd-k6 processor
160mb ram
2 cd-rom drives
a floppy drive
and a hard drive
win98se installed

What my initial plan was to do was to reformat my hard-drive and then reinstall win98se. Well I got to reformat my hard-drive using a start-up disk, but then I became unlucky. I booted up with cd-rom support and had tried to install windows numerous times with no success. I recieved quite a few errors. The cd-rom I was trying to install from is a IDE-CD R/RW 8x4x32(should that help any).

When windows would perform scandisk on the hard-drive it would work fine, and then when it checked the registry it would be fine... but then after that I would most of the time get a [windows cab extraction error](not in those exact words though). Then a few other times windows was "preparing to install" and would completely freeze up my computer. After a lot of fruitless determination, I was just about really unknowing of what to do. Then somehow I had an idea of using my older drive on my computer(ATAPI CDROM) and did everything the same as on my other drive, BUT WITH SUCCESS!!!!

Help me out to understand why this is so... what my guess is, is that my newer drive IDE-CD reads too fast or is that not possible because it is extremely noticible which drive on my computer is faster. Help me understand why the slower cd-rom drive was successful the first time I tried installing windows and the other drive was fruitless in doing so with soo many errors! http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/mad.gif

I don't know why it happens, but sometimes the work-around is to copy the CD's WIN98 directory to the hard drive, then run Seup from the hard drive. One advantage of doing that anyway is that you don't have to put the CD back in when Windows needs to load drivers.

I agree with Reid, always install from the hard drive....-

yeah agree too. 1stly it also helps u to if ur CDrom is scratched. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif

Yeah I do agree with you all, but I forgot to mention that I had tried installing from the hard drive but I recieved problems extracting a cab file. I recieved an error message that there is a corrupted .CAB file and then it would halt at once. I do thank you for your advice though http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/wink.gif

If you do in fact have a corrupt cab files on the original cd.
Then the disk may be damaged .
If you call MS and give them the ID number they can send you a replacement CD for the Shipping and handling charge

thanks you for the reply Rick. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

Hi Rick

Just wanna reconfirm what I just saw. You were saying that if my CDrom is damaged it can be replace????? Damaged in my case as there is a scratch on my CDrom but fail to repair it with KITS.

Yes but you will not be able to ever use the copy that is scratched.Not sure how they go about it but you can be sure that the copy you "say" is scratched will no longer be of use.

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