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DOS won't Recognise CD Drive

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Name: George
Date: November 25, 2002 at 14:45:50 Pacific
Subject: DOS won't Recognise CD Drive
OS: DOS?
CPU/Ram: Pentium

Comment:

I just had to completly erase the Windows OS from my laptop because of other problems. Now, I have DOS running. I have a swapable Floppy/CD-rom drive and I can't get the system to recognise I need to know what to do to get it to read so I can install Win95 from CD.

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Response Number 1

Name: wanderer
Date: November 25, 2002 at 14:51:43 Pacific
Subject: DOS won't Recognise CD Drive

Reply: (edit)

Ouch! Forethought would have been a good thing to have in this case.
You need to load the cdrom driver in the config.sys. Load mscdex in the autoexec.bat. Now there are 100's of drivers and sometimes generic ones will work. I would suggest doing a web search and find a cdrom boot diskette you can download. Use its drivers and config/autoexec to pattern your setup.
Problem here is your only choice it to get your hard disk boot to load the drivers.

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Response Number 2

Name: michael2
Date: November 25, 2002 at 14:55:16 Pacific
Subject: DOS won't Recognise CD Drive

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I did the same as yourself and now I have a dead PC.
I'm told on some older PC's some of the BIOS files are stored on the HD. By formatting, you erased these files. Which means a standard start up disc will not have the necessary files which have to be loaded to the harddrive first.
If this is not correct, I don't know....
What machine do you have ?

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Response Number 3

Name: George
Date: November 25, 2002 at 14:57:09 Pacific
Subject: DOS won't Recognise CD Drive

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I have a TI Extensa 575CD Pentium

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Response Number 4

Name: Leigh
Date: November 25, 2002 at 15:08:17 Pacific
Subject: DOS won't Recognise CD Drive

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George,
I was presented with this very problem a month ago on an old PC that would not detect the CD in Dos. What I did was this.....
Firstly get a veriosn of DOS installed.
Next after many hours surfing the net I found someone who had not only the required drivers for this ancient CD Rom but an install script.
I copied to the files to the PC and ran the install which detected and loaded the CD. (Much Reflief at this point).......
Next I put the Win95 CD and manully ran the setup program from DOS. If I tried to re-boot from the Win 95 Install floppy, the CD drivers were no longer detected, so a manual launch of the setup was the only way.
This is more difficult with Win98 so you may need to install Win95 and upgrade to 98 if that's what you need.
Good luck finding the drivers but they will be out there.
Cheers
Leigh

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Response Number 5

Name: George
Date: November 25, 2002 at 15:15:02 Pacific
Subject: DOS won't Recognise CD Drive

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Thanks a bunch, Leigh!

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Name: smithdk
Date: November 25, 2002 at 19:41:30 Pacific
Subject: DOS won't Recognise CD Drive

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http://www.acersupport.com/notebook/html/e570_dl.html#DOSWFWDR

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