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re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS
Sunday, December 1, 2002 at 10:47 pm
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Posted by Dale (703 messages posted)


You should be able to get a program here to run your CDrom in dos mode


On Sunday, December 1, 2002 at 9:35 pm, Yann wrote:
>This is one I haven't solved yet. Some old DOS games only run in DOS mode. Of course,
>making a boot disk helps. But I am having some problems configuring the CONFIG.SYS
>and the AUTOEXEC.BAT files. I have a DVD and a CD-R drive, and want to use at least
>one of them in DOS. On older computers, I used to write device(high)=c:\"cddriver.sys"
>/d:mscd001 in the CONFIG.SYS file, and c:\windows\command\mscdex /d:mscd001 /l:"drive
>letter" in the AUTOEXEC file. But now, my O/S is Win98, and I have no idea of the
>name of the SYS file to mention in the device command string, nor if the "mscdex"
>is the right driver id. Any hint on this subject would help. Thanks. http://www.bootdisk.com


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Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Yann: Sunday, December 1, 2002 at 9:35 pm)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Yann: Sun, Dec 1, 2002, 9:35 pm)
*re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Dale: Sun, Dec 1, 2002, 10:47 pm)
-re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (jmb: Mon, Dec 2, 2002, 1:56 am)
-re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Michael: Mon, Dec 2, 2002, 4:39 am)
-re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Oh_dear: Mon, Dec 2, 2002, 11:40 am)
-re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Michael: Mon, Dec 2, 2002, 11:54 am)
-re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Oh_dear: Mon, Dec 2, 2002, 12:26 pm)
*re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Yann: Mon, Dec 2, 2002, 4:55 pm)
-re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Michael: Thu, Dec 5, 2002, 5:52 am)
*re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Oh_dear: Thu, Dec 5, 2002, 8:34 am)
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