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my cd-rom drive is G: , and when i try to switch drives from C: to G: it says invalid drive...but i know my cd-rom drive is G: , what am i doing wrong??? what can i do to access the CD-ROM in DOS???
You need dos drivers for your rom drive. Go to the manufactures website and look for the dos drivers. In dos, your drive may not be G, it may now be F or D. try those drive letters. If your drive is IDE Atapi compatable, then I have Atapi drivers that will install in your config.sys file the needed dos driver. E-mail me if you think you would like to try it, and I will try to email the files to you as a zip file.
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If the cd-rom is useing windows drivers it is normal for the drive to be missing in dos if windows is not running. For dos in a window I dont know? But you said you could not get to a dos prompt!? Please tell what is going on??
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make sure ur not goins to start/shut down/restart in MS-DOS cause you wont get a driver installation for that mode, nor in startup menu for win9x command prompt only
make a win98 startup disk and boot from it and install with CD_ROM SUPPORT ooption 1
then switch prompts
PROBLEM SOLVED
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You should be able to re-install your CD-Rom drivers in DOS and reboot [you should have a floppy for the CD-Rom drivers] and this will automatically modify your Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files, should not be a problem.
As for accessing your CD-Rom in a windows dos box, should be able to , there's a file called 'Dosstart.bat' in Windows that has the drivers in it.
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Place the config.sys portion of your realmode CDROM driver in config.sys and the Autoexec.bat portion in C:\windows\DOSSTART.bat This will allow you to have access to your CD when you restart in MSDOS mode, and not have Win '95 recognise the realmode driver and go into DOS compatability mode.
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I agree with respose number 5. One other thing to look at is your config.sys file. You can add the command LAST DRIVE=Z . The Z is an arbitrary letter just make sure that it comes later in th alphabet than the last drive letter that you have on your system. Alot of people do not know about the DOSSTART file.
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Yea. I agree with all the above solutions.. :), by the way, just one more thing need to tell. if you find that after installation of CD-ROM Dos driver, it is possible that the CD-ROM drive is running in DOS compatible mode, if that is the case, please comment out the MSCDEX line inside the autoexec.bat
but if you need to run DOS games and you have to use DOS driver, just let it be, don't comment it...
good luckWallace
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look for a file in your c:\ directory named autoexec.bat, edit it using edit.com or notepad in windows then u will see a line that says
rem - by windows setup c:\mscdex.exe\...blah
then try to delete the part that says..
"rem - by windows setup -"
save the file and reboot to dos and presto!
ur cd-rom came out of the magic box!
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