Need Zoom PCI Cable Modem drivers for WinXP or Vista - not the .exe from the website, but the .inf. Help!?

Question: I've been using the Zoom PCI Cable Modem (model 5001) for several years now. I recently did a mjor upgrade of my computer including Vista. Unfortunately, the manufacturer only has drivers up to WinXP, and only as an .exe file. What I need are the .inf driver files contained in the .exe. When the .exe unpacks, it creates files called data1.cab and data2.cab. However, I can't look into these files with WinZip or WinRar. Please help me with this as the manufacturer (Zoom) won't. Thanks.

Answer: It's possible the drivers are only for XP and not for Vista- if the manufacturer doesn't support Vista, you need a diifferent cable modem. If you have a laptop or 2nd machine with XP, you could try try installing the modem there, and manually copying the .inf file onto removable media after installation has completed- but that's not likely to work since other files would almost certainly be needed to finish the device installation.

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