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PCMCIA CD R/W not recognized in Dos
Name: Bengel Date: March 28, 2001 at 08:22:26 Pacific
Comment:
I have a Sony Vaio with a PCGA-CDRW51 CD drive attached via a PCMCIA card, and I would like to use Ghost to clone my PC onto CDs, however, when I go into the dos mode to run ghost, I can not locate the CD drive (which is when I use Windows 98 the G: drive)...it is not recognized in Dos....I guess, I have to modify Autoexec.bat and Config.sys....but how ???....Help ? Thanks, Bengel
Name: The Doof Date: March 28, 2001 at 13:43:02 Pacific
Reply:
Sadly, you are not going to be able to burn backup disks from DOS with that setup. The only method currently available is to use an SCSI CDRW and an Adaptec SCSI card. Pretty damn expensive. Oh well, you wouldn't be any better off if you had an internal IDE CDRW either. The cheapest way to do it is to create a blank (unused) partition on your current drive, or a second hard drive, and ghost to that. Ghost will hide the backup partition so it doesn't interfere with your OS or applications.
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Response Number 2
Name: Michael Date: March 28, 2001 at 14:05:23 Pacific
Reply:
Two things you will need:
DOS PCMCIA drivers for your laptop hopefully downloadable from Sony's website. -and- DOS CD-RW drivers for the drive. I assume it's also a Sony. Hopefully you can find this from their website also. If not you may be SOL. A lot of newer components do not support drivers for DOS/Linux/OS2.
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