gladders wrote:

Hi all,

Figured it out! It wasn't the jumpers, but there was a typo in autoexec.bat. It's recognising the drive.

Although, it insists on assigning it as drive E. How do I force it to D?

It SHOULD, if the /L:F switch is still on MSCDEX, be getting the letter F:. Use /L:D to force it to D:, but this will only work if another drive (particularly a hard drive) is not already using D:. The default behavior without the /L: switch is to use the next available drive letter.

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LH C:\CDROM\SHCDX33F.COM /D:MSCD000

CONFIG.SYS

DEVICEHIGH=C:\CDROM\VIDE-CDD.SYS /D:MSCD000

This didn't work. I think it's due to my partitions. I'll try to fix that.

MSCDEX.EXE is a network redirector responsible for assigning a drive letter to the device detected by the CD-ROM driver, so long as the intended drive letter is free. Your MSCDEX line in autoexec.bat says:

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1C:\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /D:OEMCD001 /L:F

If D: isn't already taken by a logical hard disk partition, then using:

1C:\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /D:OEMCD001 /L:D

should set it to D:. Removing the /L: entirely switch will make it take the next available drive letter (unless the next available drive letter is beyond the LASTDRIVE environment variable)

tpowell.ca wrote on 2018-07-24, 15:31:

Also, I'm pretty sure you can still read DVDs in DOS without any special driver.

I have a dvd rom ide.. Will this work?

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