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CD-ROM not recognized with DOS

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Name: Lefty
Date: November 29, 2001 at 23:17:30 Pacific
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Hello, I have some old games I still enjoy playing that required you to exit windows and boot the game via DOS. Well, for some reason, the CD-ROM is not recognized in DOS but when I boot up in Windows it is recognized. Can someone tell me what to do or give me the correct path in config.sys or autoexec.bat? The CD drive is F:

Thanks!



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Name: Yuriy
Date: November 30, 2001 at 01:04:13 Pacific
Reply:

For support CD-ROM under DOS, you need
insert some lines in CONFIG.SYS and
AUTOEXEC.BAT

--- CONFIG.SYS ---
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\OAKCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD000
--- CONFIG.SYS ---

--- AUTOEXEC.BAT ---
C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX.exe /D:MSCD000
--- AUTOEXEC.BAT ---

OAKCDROM.SYS is standard ATAPI CD-ROM driver,
if paths not correct, find OAKCDROM.SYS and
MSCDEX.EXE and correct path.


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Response Number 2
Name: santa@clause.com
Date: December 15, 2001 at 13:34:42 Pacific
Reply:

When making aboot disk copy cd drivers onto disk, and it should work


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