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  1. March 26th, 2010, 01:38 PM #1
    jerryhillman
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    WIN 3.11 FOR WORKGROUPS

    I have floppy disks for both Win 3.1 and Win 3.11. I need one of
    these that has drivers for a cd rom drive. I know Win 3.1 does not.
    Does Win 3.11 for workgroups have drivers for a cd rom drive. If not
    where can I get them? I am trying to load a program into Virtual PC
    and did install Win 3.1. I want to install Win 95 on top of win 3.1 but
    the cd rom drive does not work. I have also installed on virtual pc
    DOS 6.2 but it also does not operate the CD Rom Drive.
    My goal is to install Win 95 onto virtual pc and I had to install DOS 6.2
    first but no cd rom access. How can I get this done.

    Jerry
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  2. March 26th, 2010, 01:46 PM #2
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    Either version of Win 3.1 will "use" a cd drive just fine..

    What you want to ask is if anyone has a bootable copy of Win3.1 ...

    But why on earth would you want to go to all the trouble of finding a non existant bootable copy of Win 3.1 to upgrade a non bootable Win 95 OS?
    If you're happy and you know it......it's your meds.
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  3. March 27th, 2010, 02:57 PM #3
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    The links below should help you to get your CD-ROM drive working on Win 3.x:

    http://www.bootdisk.com/readme.htm

    http://www.bootdisk.com/
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  4. March 28th, 2010, 07:18 AM #4
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    Win 3.x is dependent on DOS, and requires the Microsoft CD extensions (MSCDEX.EXE) to be installed, and a CD-ROM driver that will work with the CD-ROM drive.

    Like Steve, I'm wondering why you're wanting to install Win95 over the top of 3.1 - if the 95 is an upgrade version, I'd think you should be able to boot a floppy disk with CD-ROM support, run the 95 setup and show it the Win 3.x media when requested.
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  6. August 16th, 2010, 09:55 PM #5
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    I've got a generic CDRom driver that I've been using for DOS for decades. Its never failed. Its called oakcdrom, or somesuch. Give me a day or two to look through my archives and find it. I know I have it. I'll probably find it tomorrow.
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  7. August 19th, 2010, 02:22 PM #6
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    Thanks for the assistance.

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  8. August 19th, 2010, 03:02 PM #7
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    They are included with the bootdisk located here.
    http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
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