Thanks for the reply Jim. I've checked those lines in autoexec.bat and
config.sys and they are both the same in regard to the MSC line.


>There are three key elements to getting a CD-ROM to work in the DOS
>environment.
>
>!. There must be a "DEVICE=......" statement in CONFIG.SYS for the CD
>driver.
>   for example:    "DEVICE=SBIDE.SYS D:/MSCD0001"
>2. The MSCDEX command must be in AUTOEXEC.BAT
>3. Both 1&2 above must "point" to the same device name (spelling counts).
>    It's the  "/D:device" part in both statements.
>
>>Heres one for 50 points.
>>I have just partitioned and formatted a 512mb hard drive ready for Win95
>OSR2.
>>I copied across the CD rom drivers to the hard drive so that I could get
>>the CD rom going.
>>And then came the problem.....after rebooting I get a message quoting the
>>CDrom device line from autoexec.bat and a statement that there are no
>>device drivers loaded for the cdrom.
>
>

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