how do i get dos to see my cd rom drives?

[Trustee]

i have been trying for ages to try and get dos to see my cd rom drives they bothe appear in the bios and in windows but not in dos can someone help me cheers

 

[Kingofcomputer]

either run the self-install program,
or
copy the cd-rom driver to somewhere,
add device=c:\somewhere\yourcd-romdriver.sys into config.sys
add c:\dos\mscdex into autoexec.bat

 

[corkyg]

As King says, you have to put the real mode driver and all that goes with it (MSCDEX.EXE) in your DOS configuration files. An easy way to do that is to create a Windows Emergency Boot disk, and it writes those for you for CD ROM support. If you have an old Win98 E-disk, then just use that syntax and drivers in your own configuration files (AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS.)