Hello, I am unable open two cab files from Windows ME. They are:

1) CATALOG.CAB

2) WIN_22.CAB

7-Zip 9.20 opens the rest of the CAB files just fine.

I have misplaced my CD and would appreciate it if someone could please upload these 2 files.

Thanks

There is probably nothing wrong with those files. Thing is you can't open those with 7-Zip. Catalog.cab doesn't appear to actually be a a cab archive and the other one appears to be spanned with WIN_21.CAB, eg, if you open WIN_21.CAB you have access to the content of both WIN_21.CAB and WIN_22.CAB. To be confirmed or corrected by someone more knowledgeable than me.

Edited December 21, 201015 yr by loblo

There is probably nothing wrong with those files. Thing is you can't open those with 7-Zip. Catalog.cab doesn't appear to actually be a a cab archive and the other one appears to be spanned with WIN_21.CAB, eg, if you open WIN_21.CAB you have access to the content of both WIN_21.CAB and WIN_22.CAB. To be confirmed or corrected by someone more knowledgeable than me.

You're right about the cabinet files being spanned - but it's possible to extract the contents of each of the spanned cab files (Using the extract.exe or expand.exe utilities that come with Windows ME).

7-zip has been known to occasionally be unable to decompress some archives that it should have been able to decompress.

Hello, thanks for the replies. Extract.exe did open win_22..cab but did not open catalog.cab.

Extract.exe reports catalog.cab is not a cab file. I at least now feel confident that my copy of WinME is not damaged.