I got this old computer and im trying to tie up a spare 36X cd drive that I had. It works on my xp system. I set the hard drive to master and the cd drive to slave. Both of the are on the same cable so the hard drive is at the 1 end and the cd drive is in the middle The computer can find the hard drive but it cant find the cd how can i get it to work in win 3.1.

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CD drives are not detected in older BIOS.

You need to setup the drive for DOS, using MSCDEX.EXE and either the specific or a generic CD driver. A common generic one is vide-cdd.sys

The procedure is outlined at PCGuide

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Here's another fairly generic one (IDE):

ftp://ftp.mitsumi.com/pub/drivers/ide158.exe

Best as I remember, it's pretty much self-installing...

There is a self-extracting WinImage here:

http://freespace.virgin.net/x86.computers/msdosw9x.htm

This will create a self-installing CD driver disk, instructions there as well.