CD Rom and Dos Help

djblackprincess · Aug 3, 2002, 06:28 PM

I am running a p120 with 16MB ram. As pathetic as it sounds I have WIn 98 running and am having trouble with my CD Rom. Dos won't recognise it. If I shut down my computer to dos and type Q:\ (my cdrm letter) it just tells me that it is incorrect. what can I do? PLease help me.

Necrosis · Aug 3, 2002, 06:36 PM

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Originally posted by djblackprincess
I am running a p120 with 16MB ram. As pathetic as it sounds I have WIn 98 running and am having trouble with my CD Rom. Dos won't recognise it. If I shut down my computer to dos and type Q:\ (my cdrm letter) it just tells me that it is incorrect. what can I do? PLease help me.

Sounds like you need DOS drivers for your CD-Rom. I have a nice little program that will set this up for you. Just need to find it! I will find it later today.

What does it say the drive letter is for the CD-Rom in windows? "Q" seems very odd.

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Aug 4, 2002, 01:45 AM

go to C:\ in win98 a through the control panel (make sure you have show hidden files on) then open you autoexec.bat and put loadhigh=C:\mscdex.bat /mscd001 then save and close that then open config.sys and add device=C:\oakcdrom.sys /mscd001. Then save and close. See if you have mscdex.sys and oakcdrom.sys in your C: root if you do then yoiur done and you cdrom will work in dos If you dont then you need to go to C:\windows (0r your windows dir.)\command\edb and copy oakcdrom.sys to your C: and then under C:\windows\command copy your mscdex.sys to you C:

Yeti · Aug 4, 2002, 02:29 AM

If your computer can boot off of the CD-ROM drive... just shove the Win98 CD in there and tell it to start DOS with CD support. I never bothered with setting up fully working DOS.

Ryoko · Aug 4, 2002, 01:48 PM

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Originally posted by Sourcer_2002
go to C:\ in win98 a through the control panel (make sure you have show hidden files on) then open you autoexec.bat and put loadhigh=C:\mscdex.bat /mscd001 then save and close that then open config.sys and add device=C:\oakcdrom.sys /mscd001. Then save and close. See if you have mscdex.sys and oakcdrom.sys in your C: root if you do then yoiur done and you cdrom will work in dos If you dont then you need to go to C:\windows (0r your windows dir.)\command\edb and copy oakcdrom.sys to your C: and then under C:\windows\command copy your mscdex.sys to you C:

that would be the best way of doing it.

or, go into add/remove programs in your control panel, go to startup disk tab, make a windows startup disk, boot from it, and select boot from cdrom.

why do you need dos w/o windows in the background, anyway?