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[Plaidfish]

Okay I wiped the C drive clean and I'm installing Win XP pro on a PC going into my kids room....I get through all the loading this and that BS screens and it says it can't copy the file driver.cab to the harddrive....my understanding of a .cab file is it's like an archive of the XP disc anyway.....anyone know if I can skip it or why it would say it can't.....I'm going to see what happens if I skip it but I'd like some experienced people to esplain what these files are and why (if you know) it won't copy them to the drive.....

Okay I got the info I was looking for...I just freaked and got a lot of bad search results....i see the file is just where win stores drivers for plug n play functionality......

 

[retarded pilot]

I'm going to guess the disc has a imperfection or scratch where the .cab file is located ..or maybe you spilled a little jelly on it ...id clean the disc with a soft towel or cloth & a little water, wipe it from the center toward the outer edge ...do not wipe it in a circler pattern

 

[bustedgears]

it's either a bad cd, hard drive, ram, or the cd rom drive.

probably just a scratched cd. How old is the drive you're using to install off of? If the cd is a burned copy, sometimes the old drives don't read them so well.

 

[HeartBreak]

Not a good idea to skip that file. You can optionally format the drive as a Fat32, then copy the CD to the c:\drivers\wxp folder, then start the setup from there. That prevents those little boo-boos.

You'll need a dos startup disc with cdrom drivers to do that.

Otherwise, I'd recommend trying another cdrom drive. I've had drives act up on me like that, all because they didn't like the color of the disc's dye.

Also, try burning a copy at a LOW speed, like 2x or 4x.