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DVD Drive Not Working In Dos After Partitioning HDD

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First post, by GabrielKnight123

Posted on 2018-03-10, 08:48

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I have a hard drive just for Dos 6.2 and everything was working well with just a single partition in Dos but when I made 3 more partitions using Fat16 I can no longer access my DVD drive I think because it was using "D" as its drive letter which is now assigned to a hard drive partition, In my Config.sys file I have:

DEVICEHIGH=C:\CDROM\oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001

and for Autoexec.bat:

LH C:\CDROM\MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscd001 /L:D

I tried changing the letter D to G but that didnt work so do I need to change the msc"d" part aswell?

Reply 1 of 8, by GabrielKnight123

Posted on 2018-03-10, 09:20

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I looked it up and found that I have to only change the value after the /L: part in Autoexec.bat but when I change it to anything other than D/E/F it still does not work

Reply 2 of 8, by PTherapist

Posted on 2018-03-10, 09:36

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Add this line to config.sys and see if it helps -

1lastdrive=z

Reply 3 of 8, by GabrielKnight123

Posted on 2018-03-10, 11:54

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Thanks a million PTherapist that worked

Reply 4 of 8, by PARKE

Posted on 2018-03-10, 12:15

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DOS allocates a data structure of appr. 100 bytes per letter in memory. If you are short on memory you should not use more letters than necessary - so for example lastdrive=F saves 2K.

Reply 5 of 8, by GabrielKnight123

Posted on 2018-03-10, 15:08

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Thanks Parke this will save some conventional memory

Reply 6 of 8, by dr_st

Posted on 2018-03-10, 20:50

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Using VIDE-CDD.SYS instead of OAKCDROM.SYS would save you heaps more! 😁

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Reply 7 of 8, by mrau

Posted on 2018-03-11, 02:49

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why is vide-cd smaller? what functionality was cut out?

Reply 8 of 8, by GabrielKnight123

Posted on 2018-03-11, 17:08

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I will try VIDE-CCD.SYS and CTMOUSE but where is a good place to download them?

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