extract contents of data1.cab?

[RLN]

How would I go about extracting the contents of a data1.cab file from a game? No matter what I do I can't get it to open. I'm trying to retrieve the cdsound and cdvideo folders from it. Help would be much appreciated since I don't have much experience with this technical stuff.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Try i5comp and i6comp (search for them on the Web).

[RLN]

Originally Posted by Joe Forster/STA

Try i5comp and i6comp (search for them on the Web).

I tried both of those. When I open the exe it automatically closes. I tried opening it in DOSbox, but then all that would say is that the icomp program can't be ran in dos mode. Isn't there another way or perhaps someone could do it for me?

[Joe Forster/STA]

Run the executables from a DOS prompt (or a proper file manager), not that idiotic Windows Explorer! (Yes, they won't run in DOSBox, they are Windows executables...)

[RLN]

Originally Posted by Joe Forster/STA

Run the executables from a DOS prompt (or a proper file manager), not that idiotic Windows Explorer! (Yes, they won't run in DOSBox, they are Windows executables...)

That's interesting. I got it to work, but it didn't extract any of the the cdvideo or cdsound folders. I know they have to be in there because when I went to add/remove programs and clicked on modify it said those folders were on disc 1, yet those folders are specifically on the disc so I thought they'd be in the data1.cab. I then extracted data2.cab and it extracted the same couple of .bmp images it took from data1.cab. I'm confused.

Edit: When I tried to first extract the data2.cab it asked for a data2.hdr, which isn't listed in the cd directory. So I took data1.hdr and renamed it to 2. Oh, also when I extracted from data2.cab it had a bunch of .bik files that tried to extract but everyone of them came up as "check the installation medium." What does that mean?

[Joe Forster/STA]

You need to read the documentation. There's always data1.hdr ONLY (the index file) but data1.cab, data2.cab etc. are just successive (data) volumes of one large archive.

[neveru]

hey guys
i have a game called dawn of war soulstorm that i downloaded
and the only part i cant get to work is when i start it it wont register an account (when i click create nothing happens. i though that this might have something to do with the data files. can any one help

[DABhand]

Yes read rule #1 of the forum. Then slap your own head.