I am having a problem with DOS, I cannot get it to read the CD drive because one of my games is DOS based and it cannot work in a Windows Shell. I already went to the advanced options in the DOS Prompt properites and clicked the option that said "Prevent MS-DOS based programs from detecting Windows" and my game is freezing up so could you help me get DOS to recognize the D:\ drive. Please respond by E-Mail.

You need to have the CD drivers loading in DOS at start-up, which they are not now doing. There are several ways to get them there, however, one of the easiest is to have a boot disk with the cd drivers on them, then transfer the drivers to your hard drive in the auto.exec and config.sys files. You can transfer them line by line from the A drive to c with c:\edit autoexec.bat and then add them there and c:edit config.sys and add them there too. If you have no other things currently in your autoexec and config files, you can also do this after you boot from the boot disk A:\copy A*.* c: A boot disk specific to your current operating system is available at: www.bootdisk.com

Your resulting files should look similar to this: Autoexec.bat file MSCDEX.exe /s /d:cdide01 /m:10 Config.sys file device=himem.sys device=GSCDROM.sys /d:cdide01 If you do not use A:\copy A*.* c: and transfer all to c except the command.com (tell it no) you will need to copy MSCDEX.exe , cdide01 , and GSCDROM.sys to the C drive. (The boot disk may have other generic drivers similar to the above), again you can get one at www.bootdisk.com