dangit need some help

[Attitudx]

I am trying to fix this stinking computer
it is a pII 300 191 megs of ram and just generic stuff was having problems so i decide i would format and reinstall with win98se
now i wont install gets a message that a corrupted cab file was found and could be due to low conventional memory/hardware/bad media yadayada yada

I just used this cd on my lap top with boot up disk and worked fine what the dang deal

[sinn]

is the hardrive old or not working right? you could have bad blocks, just a guess

[sjohnson]

That message is caused by either a bad read off the CD or corruption in memory during extraction.

Old CDROM drives have caused this problem for me in the past.

[Tweaked!]

Boot with the floppy boot disk, run scandisk to check for the errors. If there is none, then do a format and then run setup from the cd.

[Attitudx]

ok cool you konw i didnt even think about the cdrom one i pulled from a 166 system i was given so yeah could be the cdrom cuz i know the cd is good the harddrive works my system 1.8 on a dragon picks its up i formatted and i ran killdisk on it as well i know it is just the cdrom same cdrom on another computer does the same thing

[Attitudx]

OK SJohnson thank you thank you took out the cd and put in a 4x4x24 cdrw and blamo i am installing like a mad man

[sjohnson]

Great! :)

[Attitudx]

I would have never thought it could have been the cd rom wierd