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Jim Meagher <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:16:59 -0500
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Dave,

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.

Jim Meagher
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Perry <[log in to unmask]>


>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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