I'm looking for a .com file that will load a universal cd-rom driver. I don't mean a dynamic device loader, I mean a .com file that will do the loading for me. Something akin to the ansi.com that loads up the same thing ansi.sys would in a config.sys file. Does anyone know if there is something like this in existance?

Might try searching here. http://www.simtel.net/

Loading a CD Rom driver is always a two step process. 1) Load the driver into memory and 2) Load the CD Extensions software. I know of no such program to do this all in one step. However, if you were to load the device driver dynamically like you stated, you could execute both the steps via one batch file. I.E. ::cdrom.bat device cd-rom.sys mscdex /d:cd-rom.sys ::end of batch Now this is just a generic example, but if you plug in the specifics of you CD-ROM and provide the correct path to all the necessary files,it should work. The next step is just to download a bat2exe or bat2com batch compiler program and compile the batch file to a .com or .exe file and you should be good to go. Hope this helps, Michael

If that bat2exe or bat2com also compiled the cd-rom device driver that would work perfectly. I'm looking for an all in one point and click set up for "most" computers.

Tyler, I will make it for you and e-mail it to you tomorrow. -Michael

Thanks Michael, I really appreciate it! Additionally, would you mind tossing in the info as to how you went about it? I understand exactly what you were saying as far as the bat2com or bat2exe procedure goes, but would that also compile in the driver and the device loading program in the process? I'm going to give that a shot in a minute here to see for myself. -Tyler

Tyler, When I posted the message I knew exactly how I was going to about it. Now, I have no earthly clue what I was thinking. No matter how many times I have gone over it in my head, I can't figure out how to do it in less than 2 files! I'll have to get back to you. -Michael