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"Getting cd rom drive to work in dos"

Have just formatted hard drive on ohter pc, need to get dos to recognise the cdrom drive - how do i do it? help!

Have just formatted hard drive on ohter pc, need to get dos to recognise the cdrom drive - how do i do it? help!

I haven't got a clue!

I suppose it's harder than just typing D:/

???

Don't you go into the setup thing just after the computer has booted and assign it there as a drive?

Have you got any floppies that came with the drive?

phew. sorted :) managed to get the machine to boot from the cd rom directly and it suddenly recognised it? crazy pcs...

It does taht for XP but not 98

You need DOS drivers for your CDROM. Most bootdisks have generic drivers on, but some useless examples don't.

If you ever get the problem again, go to www.bootdisk.com. They have a load of bootdisk images you can download, replete with CDROM drivers.

make sure you creat a bootable floppy with cd rom support now mate and keep it safe :)

c.b.

Darkus wrote:
> phew. sorted :) managed to get the machine to boot from the cd rom
> directly and it suddenly recognised it? crazy pcs...

Mac's don't give you any problems.

:P

...apart from the obvious problem of them being Macs :-D

Miserableman wrote:

www.bootdisk.com. They have a
> load of bootdisk images you can download, replete with CDROM drivers.

Tried this, kept getting errors, was wierd. I think it kept saying 'bad filename'?