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lensman3 · 01-26-2008, 09:55 PM

It sounds like you put a "new" cdrom into it, meaning it was made since the millennium. Did the cdrom come with a dos driver? If it did put it in a directory and point the mscdsx.exe program at it. Hope for the best. The mscdex.sys line has the letters "LH" for load high. I haven't seen that command in 10 year. I bet this computer has a whopping 1 meg of memory too.

In the autoexec there is sscdrom.sys command that I think links back to MSCDEX.sys line in the config.sys file. The only part of DOS that is still around is the DOS file system. It is still used in the flash memory sticks.

I really think you are the proud owner of a "boat anchor"! Good luck.

01-26-2008, 09:55 PM	#2 (permalink)
lensman3 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Littleton, Colorado USA Posts: 412 OS: xp 64 sp2 Fedora Core 8 (vmware xp core 8 x32) Minix	Re: Getting DOS to recognise a CDROM drive. It sounds like you put a "new" cdrom into it, meaning it was made since the millennium. Did the cdrom come with a dos driver? If it did put it in a directory and point the mscdsx.exe program at it. Hope for the best. The mscdex.sys line has the letters "LH" for load high. I haven't seen that command in 10 year. I bet this computer has a whopping 1 meg of memory too. In the autoexec there is sscdrom.sys command that I think links back to MSCDEX.sys line in the config.sys file. The only part of DOS that is still around is the DOS file system. It is still used in the flash memory sticks. I really think you are the proud owner of a "boat anchor"! Good luck.