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  1. Feb 4th, 2004, 10:33 AM #1
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    DVD-ROM DOS Driver?

    Just wondering if anyone happens to have, or know from whence I can find a DVD-ROM driver for DOS?
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    How likely is it that something as recent as DVD drives has drivers for something as old as DOS?
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  3. Feb 4th, 2004, 11:03 AM #3
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    There are CD-ROM DOS drivers for 52x CD-ROMs.
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    Win98 startup disk contains drivers for CD / DVD drives.

    Depends what you need to do?
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    Re: DVD-ROM DOS Driver?

    Originally posted by plenderj
    Just wondering if anyone happens to have, or know from whence I can find a DVD-ROM driver for DOS?
    As long as your not trying to watch a DVD in DOS than you shouldnt have any problems reading the drive.
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  7. Feb 6th, 2004, 03:31 AM #6
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    I could not get any DOS CD-ROM drivers to read the drive.
    Its a CDRW/DVD-ROM combo. I did eventually get a DOS driver.

    So I now have a bootable DVD with a ghost image of a computer on it.
    It loads himem.sys to LH and DEVICEHIGH files, creates a ramdrive of 4mb (q, copies the mouse driver in there and copies mscdex there.
    Loads the mouse driver, loads mscdex (creates a p, copies DriveImage from p: into q:.
    Executes q:\pqdi.exe (powerquest drive image), pointed via command line switches at the 4GB image file on the DVD to restore.

    Booyeah
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  8. Feb 6th, 2004, 03:34 AM #7
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    you could just use ghost and a CD
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  9. Feb 6th, 2004, 09:10 AM #8
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    I'm using the equivalent of ghost. And the image file is 4.5GB
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  11. Feb 6th, 2004, 02:50 PM #9
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    i bet that doesnt take long to load..
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