Re: Slightly OT: Win 98 Y2k Update - Failure

From: Walt Basil (see_signature_for_real_email_at_address.com)
Date: 06/06/04 

Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 08:22:03 -0600

On 6/6/04 3:47, in article uak#Xt6SEHA.1472@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl,
"user@domain.invalid" <user@domain.invalid> wrote:

> Steve Jain wrote:
>
>> How much free drive space do you have in Windows?
>>
>> On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 20:43:59 -0400, user@domain.invalid wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I am running Win '98 on VPC6.1 on a G4 DP867. I want to run some
>>> software that requires the Y2k update #2 which requires the Y2k update
>>> #1 to be installed first. When running Y2k.exe, it fails to be able to
>>> extract the last file called ACTPMNT.OCX. The error message says
>>> "Exctracting file failed. It is most likely caused by low memory (low
>>> disk space for swapping file) or corrupted Cabinet file." I tried
>>> downloading the exe file again and it still failed. I have 320 meg
>>> allocated to Win '98. Any thoughts on how to make this work?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Rob
>>
>>
>> Steve Jain, Microsoft MVP for Virtual PC for Windows
>> Website: http://www.essjae.com
>> *** All posts are provided AS-IS, no warranty, no QoS ***
>
>
> Steve,
>
> I have 14.9 GB of free space on the "C" drive. BTW, where is this "C"
> drive stored on my Mac? I searched for any file visible or invisible
> greater than 1 GB and I came up with nothing.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Rob

On my system, it is located in my Documents folder, and has the name of the
virtual machine that I see in the list I choose from at Virtual PC startup. 

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