CAB file error on installation with WindowsMe

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Bill - 26 Apr 2004 19:49 GMT

At about 17 or 18% into the installation of WinMe, I get the following
error:

Setup has encountered an error extracting the Windows
files to your computer. To resolve this issue, you may
need to boot from the Emergency Boot Disk and run Setup
from MS-DOS. If you continue to receive these errors, see
the .cab errors section of the Setup.txt file for additional
information

Does anyone know what is causing this and how to get around it? My install
CD is like new, and I swapped my CD-Rom drive, but nothing has helped. I've
also formatted the drive and run Scandisk with no problems.

Thanks,

Bill

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Mike M - 26 Apr 2004 20:35 GMT

Cause of such problems is usually either a dirty CD or a dirty CD drive. Have
you tried the suggestion included as part of your message? Have you tried
cleaning your CD and CD player? An alternative suggestion which also means
booting from DOS using a floppy is to boot to DOS and copy the Win9x folder on
your Win Me CD to your hard disk, perhaps as a folder called C:\WinMe and when
complete run setup.exe from the C:\WinMe folder.

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> At about 17 or 18% into the installation of WinMe, I get the following
> error:
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> install CD is like new, and I swapped my CD-Rom drive, but nothing has
> helped. I've also formatted the drive and run Scandisk with no problems.

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Bill - 26 Apr 2004 20:55 GMT

As stated in original message, I swapped the CD drive and retried with the
same results. I also tried copying the Millenium software to the hard drive
yesterday, and got an error when trying to install from there as well, only
in this instance, the installation didn't even start. I don't recall the
exact error verbage.

> Cause of such problems is usually either a dirty CD or a dirty CD drive. Have
> you tried the suggestion included as part of your message? Have you tried
[quoted text clipped - 16 lines]
> > install CD is like new, and I swapped my CD-Rom drive, but nothing has
> > helped. I've also formatted the drive and run Scandisk with no problems.

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Mike M - 26 Apr 2004 22:08 GMT

In which case your CD appears to be defective in which case see KB 326246 -
"How to Replace Lost, Broken, or Missing Microsoft Software or hardware"
(http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=326246).

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Mike Maltby MS-MVP
mcmaltby@hotmail.com

> As stated in original message, I swapped the CD drive and retried with the
> same results. I also tried copying the Millenium software to the hard
> drive yesterday, and got an error when trying to install from there as
> well, only in this instance, the installation didn't even start. I don't
> recall the exact error verbage.

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