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Name: goodwrench27
Date: February 6, 2006 at 17:10:40 Pacific
Subject: win98se install problem
OS: windows 98se
CPU/Ram: 200/32
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hi. i'm trying to install windows 98se. i have partitioned and formatted the hard drive to fat32. the install goes fine until it hits 30%. then i get the error "file copying problem - you interupted setup while it was copying windows files from setup (.cab) file." i tryed other win98se disks and the same problem. i've tryed another cd rom also...same problem...always at 30%. any ideas? thanks.


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Response Number 1
Name: jboy
Date: February 6, 2006 at 17:27:00 Pacific
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Try copying over the CD-ROM's Win98 folder to the hard drive and then run setup from there

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Response Number 2
Name: goodwrench27
Date: February 6, 2006 at 17:47:54 Pacific
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thanks...i'll give it a try.


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Response Number 3
Name: jboy
Date: February 6, 2006 at 18:39:25 Pacific
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Sure - that may get you around the 'copying files' issue, and has the added benefit of having the installation files readily available on the HDD, in case of future need

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Response Number 4
Name: ham30
Date: February 7, 2006 at 10:17:11 Pacific
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Since it fails with different CDs and drives, you might want to check your RAM.

These are both pretty good
Memtest86
or

Doc memory tester


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