Anonymous
Posted 6 years, 5 months ago
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Hello everybody... I'm with a problem here.
I have many games, and in the instalation CD of most of then, the game files come compressed into files called .cab files. The WinZip (WinRar, WinAce etc...) can open it, but when you try to open it the following error occur:
"WinZip cannot open E:data2.cab because it is not in the standard Microsoft CAB format (as defined in mid-1998). The "signature bytes" required by the Microsot CAB specification are missing."
Can anybody tell me how to open these files?
Please, tell me....
Regards,
Samir
Chris Burrage
Posted 6 years, 5 months ago
Joined: 12 years, 5 months ago
Re: How do I open game .cab files?
You don't. The setup routine of whatever you are installing will extract the required data from them.
Chris B
Anonymous
Posted 6 years, 5 months ago
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Re: How do I open game .cab files?
I know that setup will do it, but I really need to extract the files, because I have the GTA San Andreas, and it comes from a DVD. I want to pass (is that the correct word?) it onto CDs, and I need to extract the .cab files, coz one of them has 1,3 Gb.
Thanks...
P.S: My English is terrible, so pardon me if I wrote something wrong. :)
Chris Burrage
Posted 6 years, 5 months ago
Joined: 12 years, 5 months ago
Re: How do I open game .cab files?
Don't think you can do this. They are a proprietry format to prevent such activities.
Chris B
Anonymous
Posted 6 years, 5 months ago
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Re: How do I open game .cab files?
Ok.. thanks for your patience...
Regards, Samir
Daniel
Posted 6 years, 5 months ago
Joined: 12 years, 5 months ago
Re: How do I open game .cab files?
Provided that you can create a working ISO image, you should then be able to split it in separate sections using "The File Splitter" http://www.dekabyte.com/filesplitter/
Burn the sections to separate CD's. You would then copy all the files on the computer that doesn't have a DVD drive and run them off the hard drive using a CD emulator.
It's not the main purpose of the program, but it's something that you could do with it. By the way, it sounds like you're trying to go about things the hard way. Why don't you just buy a DVD drive on the PC where you want to install the game?
Regards,
Daniel
