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Dos Drivers for Dimension 8400 CD Drive
I had my OS and hard drive fail. I tried many things, but am now at a point where I FDisked my Hard drive, loaded MSDOS on the hard drive and made it bootable. My problem now is that the machine doesnt aknowledge the CD Drive. I tried adding to my config.sys and autoexec.bat, the DEVICE=ATAPI.SYS /D:MSCD0001 and MSCDEX /D:MSCD001, but the machine wont boot, just stuck with blank screen.
What device driver could/should I use for the CD ROM, I tried, ATAPI.SYS, CDROM.SYS. and OAKCDROM.SYS, all had the same result.
TIA
IV
Thanks for the reply.
The Hard drive is not faulty, I believe I was infected with a virus. But since I fdisked it now it seems to be clean.
My problem now is that I have a Machine Dimension 8400 running DOS 6.0, with a Samsung DVD ROM Drive and a Teac DVD+R/W drive that I cant get access to.
I am looking for DOS drivers that I can load in my Config.sys/Autoexec.Bat that will allow me to get to the drives, I have a XP PRO cd that I can use to install a new OS. The machine has a Floppy drive as well.
Did you ever get a resolution to your issue?
I am encountering a similar problem (CD-Rom is recognized by bios but won't boot from disk) and am convinced it is a BIOS problem... I am a little nervous about going full BIOS flash, but at this point I am not sure what else to do, bar what you are suggesting in your post.
http://en.community.dell.com/forums/p/19252091/19409398.aspx#19409398
TheRealFireblad
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Posted November 20th, 2008 08:00
Welcome to the forums :emotion-5:
If the hard drive is faulty, why are you messing around trying to get it to work at all... never mind with DOS, rather than simply replacing it?
If you're determined to proceed however, this PC 911 article should help you.
Alternatively... here's the official Microsoft help page on the subject.