Win 95 - Parallel CD Rom

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Richard - 04 Nov 2003 22:06 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to install Windows 95 on a laptop with a
Parallel CD Rom Drive. When the 95/98 Start up disk is
loaded, it cannot find the Cd drive.

Any ideas how I can get the PC to see the drive?

Thanks!

Richard.

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Jon_Hildrum - 05 Nov 2003 01:50 GMT

I do not believe it will work. You would need drivers on the startup disk
for the parallel CDROM drive. However, if you had them then you would be
able to start installation but after the first reboot it would fail to find
the CDROM drive.
The Initial win95 setup includes support for CDROM for subsequent restarts
but not for a parallel CDROM

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Kay Archer - 05 Nov 2003 02:04 GMT

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> Any ideas how I can get the PC to see the drive?

Your cd-rom should have come with drivers. The hardware driver
needs to be loaded in your boot drives config.sys file, such as:
driver=cdrom.sys /d:cd. The software drive is called mscdex.exe
and should be in your autoexec.bat file as
c:\windows\command\mscdex.exe /d:cd, or whatever the appropriate
path is.

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