file extraction from win98 SE 1

[PalmStrike]

I am trying to extract two files from the original CD-ROM, but I can't find them, can anyone thell me where to find them please.

Notepad.exe
Wininit.exe

Please, please, please, do not point me to Microsoft Knowledge base Article - 129605,

As this is what got me in this position in the first place.

Thanks

Rob

 

[comtec17]

Notepad and Wininit are on the Win98se CD but are located within the .cab files.

For Notepad.exe it is located in the Win98_46.cab file.
For Wininit.exe it is located in the Win98_47.cab file.

You can extract the files by using Winrar. You can find it @

http://www.rararchiver.com/download.html.

 

[mainegeek]

Hello PalmStrike,
You can extract files by using System File Checker.
Click on Start,Programs,Accessories,System Tools,System Information,Tools,System File Checker. Select "Extract one file from installation disk".

 

[PalmStrike]

thanks comtec17, that's the info I needed, was having difficulty finding it. In the end, I just copied it from another win98 machine, but I am not convinced that this is the best way to do this.

should I delete them again, and go down the extract route? does this way set things within the registry?

kind regards

Rob

 

[drcard]

Hi Rob,

Extracting files from the CD and replacing files on the HDD in Windows does that...replace the file. It doesn't install it, which means it doesn't replace registry entries or file associations. However if just the file is corrupt, then only the file needs replacing. What problem are you having, what was done that caused the problem, and what do you desire?

Now for the problem with finding a file in a cab file (compressed). There are 2 easy ways to do this:

1) Go to this link and download Agent Ransack (free):

http://www.agentransack.com/default.aspx.

This search tool can look into cab and other compressed files without opening them....it will even look in closed dbx(email)folders. Type the file you are looking for and point it to your CD-ROM containing the Win98 CD. You can use WinZip to extract the file.

2) Go to the MSKB web page and search for "Contents of Win 98 CD" for Win 98. You will see links for a listing of the contents of the Win98 CD. These will be in parts (ie. 1 of 14, 2 of 14, etc.). Note the exact wording of title of these articles and return to the question page. Search again using the exact wording of the MSKB article shown by your first search...this will give a complete list of all MSKB articles (all 14 parts) that together make the entire contents of the Win98 CD. One at a time, open each article and copy the text from it and paste into a Word document. Now go to the second article (2 of 14) copy the text in it and add it to this Word document. Proceed until you have copied and pasted all the articles of the Contents of the Win98 CD into a single (rather large) Word document and save this document. Anytime you desire to know if and in what cab a file on the Win 98 CD is, open this Word document and use Word's find function to find it for you....finding the file shows which cab it is in. You can do this for other versions of Windows too.

HTH, Dana)

 

[PalmStrike]

drcard, thankyou this is very helpfull, I tried to give you a star, but there is something afoot.

The reason I had to replace the files is I found out the this particular pc had had the "qaz virus" on it at one time, and it was never really cleared up.

Thanks again, for pointing me at the part of MSKB that I didn't even think of looking in.

 

[comtec17]

Palmstrike,
Glad to hear you are up and running. By copying a file it does not set itself within the registry. Depending on how this problem arouse is how you would go by fixing it. I have been in a situation with a virus before with wordpad.exe and had to actually re-install it from the cd using the add/remove software-->Windows Setup function. When you lose a critical file as with the wininit.exe then sometimes copying it from another machine works and sometimes having to re-install the OS is better. Again, glad to hear you are up and running again and hope you never have to go through it again.