can't find cab files on install cd to restore lost files

[DJW]

I am running windows 98se (just installing it and most of my old stuff)
I did the upgrade from plain windows 98 to put a creative labs web cam
on it. During the cam instalation had a lot of problems. Finally got it
to work. But now at boot up it says I am missing vredir.vxd,dfs.vxd &
msn32.dll.
So i went out on the web and found the solution instructions. It says I
should be able to restore useing system file checker. However it says I
should find the lost files on my (OEM?) windows 98SE install CD in the
win98 folder in the cabs folder.
I find no cabs folder on the CD. Also said maybe I'd could restore from
the cabs folder on the C drive. Also not present. I turned on show
hidden files in folder options and looked manually and also did a find
for the files in question on both the CD and c drive without finding
with no luck.
NOW WHAT DO I DO. I just don't want to reinstall all I had problems
with the modem install at first and now the web cam both creative lab
products. Not to mension all the time I wasted puting applications on
and my old files back on. Is their someone or someplace that I can just
get the files and drag them into the c:\windows\system folder where I
have read they should be?
HELP!!!!!!
I am so sick of windows and associated things not working the way the
manuals say they should! Makes me wonder why I every left my old MAC
behind.

[DJW]

A further note. I found an old cd I made from an old laptop that had
windows 95 on it and I found the three files in the \windows\system
folder.
Could I drag or should I use system file checker to copy them out. Or
if I find my old windows 95 install CD and find a cabs on it. Could I
use them or will all hell break loss because one is 95 and my system is
98SE? Will I be in deeper than I already am. At least I can boot now by
hitting a key when the messages of lost files comes up!

[DJW]

OK what gives when I did a search of my windows 98 install CD it could
not find the files. So I opened all folders, what fun and in net7 and
net9 in the win98 found the files. Are these them the ones I need? And
in a while when I use System File Checker are they going to install as
I am told they will. What are my odds of more road blocks? Why did
microsoft make it sound like cabs was a single folder I would find in
the win98 folder and why would my search not find the files on the CD I
looked with in the start menu? I did the search with and without the
three carachter dot endings?

[DJW]

also noticed that when auto starts the installer CD that is I click on
browse the cd and find the files I need. Then if I right button click
on them it says extract. Is it smart enough to put them back on C drive
where they belong or will I get a box asking where to put them. Which
is the best way to get them back
1. drag them fron CD to C:\windows\sytem like I could do on an old MAC
2. use the system file checker
3. use the extract method mesioned above
What will work without more windows crap happening?

[Don Phillipson]

"DJW" <dd...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1165334426.4...@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

SFC is your best bet if you have a completed
fresh installation from CD. (SFC cannot add to
its database on-line upgrades and bug fixes,
which are numerous.) Only SFC knows the
filepath destination for the various system files.
The / File / Extract routine does not.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

[Don Phillipson]

"DJW" <dd...@hotmail.com> wrote in message

news:1165330743....@16g2000cwy.googlegroups.com...

> I find no cabs folder on the CD.

There isn't one. Most of the CAB files are in /Win98
and a few more in /Drivers subfolders.

> Also said maybe I'd could restore from
> the cabs folder on the C drive. Also not present.

Some installers create a folder /Cabs and copy to iit
all CAB files a particular installation requires. You
have to do this for yourself. The MS installation
process does not do so.