Trouble unpacking large archives

garfield

As of late I have been having trouble unpacking large archives. I have WinRAR 3.0 and WinAce 2.2. I downloaded 1081 from Louis and I thought I would try it on my laptop first. I networked the file across and clicked on 1081.exe and pretty soon was told that the file was corrupt. I was running 1068 at the time. I then loaded the archive into WinRAR with the same result. I went back to my main computer and did the same thing and this time the archive unpacked. I transfered the file back to the laptop and installed the package. After everything worked out there I decided to take the plunge on my main machine. I clicked on 1081.exe and got corrupted file. I checked with WinRAR and got the same message. I rebooted and everything worked. I downloaded a 150Mb rar archive and it was corrupted. I rebooted into WinMe and the file was fine. I then checked 1081.exe and it was bad again under Me. I would think I had a memory problem, but I had problems on two different machines. I also noticed in the forum that other people were downloading and getting corrupted files. Is anyone else having these kinds of problems?

Zardon

well I had this problem when I had a faulty memory module a few years ago, but the fact you have had the same error on several machines suggests that either the source (s) you downloaded from had a corrupted archive (which has happened with some people hosting these on ftp) or you had been using a download accelerator which caused the corruption.

garfield

I may not have made myself that clear, but the archives in question were not corrupt. They just appeared to be at various time and not at others.

A new instance. I just built a new test machine today. I made a clean install of XP and the very next thing I did was install 1081 from the before reported corrupt archive with no problem. I went to the internet and was informed that I didn't have Java support so the next thing I did was click on msjavx86.exe to install it and I got that the archive was corrupt.

This is a brand new machine, a verified good copy of msjavx86.exe and nothing on the machine but XP 1081. I installed WinRAR 3.0 and checked the archive and it told me it was corrupt. I then installed the file from my network with no problems. I then compared the two copies of msjavx86 and they were identical.

I think that there must be a bug in SP1.
Garfield

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Garfield,

try to figure out what's caused for all that..
but i'm quite sure that's nothing to do with SP1.

i have read your posted for 3 times already but still need to ask you some questions..

i got here are 3 machines and 3 files in questions..
laptop/main machine/new machine. and SP.exe/msjavx86.exe/150mb.rar

question are :
how many copy of the 3 files you have it now ?
when you install the msjavx86.exe for the ist time on the new machine.. where's the file location ?
how do you tranfer file from machine to machine ? move to/copy to/cut-paste

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