I just bought a dell latitude laptop, and had the seller put a brand new hard drive in it. I installed Dos 6.22 from the 3.5 drive with no problems. However, I need my cdrom drive to install windows and really get up and running. I'm an old dos guy, but i never really figured out MSCDEX. is that all I need, or will I need a special driver from dell too? Thanks

Have you try a bootdisk from www.bootdisk.com they will install your cd-rom drivers go there and download the bootdisk for the windows you'll installing

I tired that. If I do that, I can't even get a D:> if i try to access any drive other than C:> it attempts to access the floppy drive. I know that a lot of laptops have odd drivers and won't work with generic drivers. I can't find anything from dell but mscdex, and taht doesn't seem to do me any good.

I usually have success with ATAPICD.SYS on older laptops. Make sure that your DOS directory actually contains the two required files - mscdex.exe and atapicd.sys The line you need in autoexec.bat is C:\DOS\MSCDEX.exe /D:MSCD001 and in config.sys DEVICE=C:\DOS\ATAPICD.SYS /D:MSCD001 Good luck...Krystyna

I used the following driver to get the cd-rom to be recognized from DOS: OAKCDROM.SYS Just update the lines from the last reply to: The line you need in autoexec.bat is C:\DOS\MSCDEX.exe /D:MSCD001 and in config.sys DEVICE=C:\DOS\OAKCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD001

hey there i have the same problem as you have wiv the cdrom drive but i have no idea how to edit these files.. (config.sys and autoexec.exe) can u help ... i have made the dir C:\DOS and added both mscdex.exe and oakcdrom.sys so i just need to edit them files can some1 help me? many thnaks.... Please e-mail me wiv any help u can giv