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CANT BOOT FROM USB CD-ROM TO DOS
Name: Media Date: April 13, 2001 at 12:55:41 Pacific
Name: chris Date: July 17, 2001 at 07:05:11 Pacific
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You need to have a usb driver initialize the port during startup. A popular one used with IBM is USB_CD.sys. With that use add a line to your config.sys and edit the MSCDEX line in your autoexec.bat file. Then it would work
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Response Number 2
Name: jose Date: April 15, 2002 at 21:03:49 Pacific
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I downloaded that file.(COOL) But can anybody help me and tell me Exactly what to write. Iam runninng WINXP and there are no files in the autoxec.bat(No Data at all its blank)By the way Iam looking at it with SYSEDIT.
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Response Number 3
Name: Michael Date: April 18, 2002 at 17:04:00 Pacific
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Enter a line in config.sys as follows: device=a:\usb_cd.sys /d:mscd001
Enter a line in autoexec.bat as follows: a:\mscdex /d:mscd001
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