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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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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?
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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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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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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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Thanks for the assistance.
Jerry
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They are included with the bootdisk located here.
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm