dos days question

[Bander]

need to know how to add a new file to
c: in dos, not a directory. I know that
md "directory" will made a directory
what short cut can make a file
Thanks

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[jdc2000]

What type of a file do you want to create? You can create text files with the DOS EDIT program. If you want to create a zero byte file, you can use QBasic to create a program that will do this for you.

[Bander]

Thanks for the come back, Its a .exe file
that needs to placed on the dos system before
a driver can be loaded down.
Its a formated small hard disk with win 95
OS and cd rom which has to be loaded down from floppy boot disk on an old 486 for a
childs machine
Thanks for your help

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[Eeyore]

You can't make an EXE file (except with a proper program and knowing what to write). You can copy the file. That's about it.

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[Vernon Frazee]

If your driver is just checking to see if a particular .EXE file exists before it continues, you can use a command similar to:

   rem>c:\whatever.exe

to create a zero-byte file named whatever.exe in the root directory of drive C:. (Of course you'll need to change that whatever filename to the name of the .EXE file your driver is looking for).

If your driver actually needs to load the .EXE program before it will work though, this idea will fail.

What is the name of the driver and the .EXE program the driver is looking for? If it was something popular, one of us might remember how to get it to work.

[This message has been edited by Vernon Frazee (edited 12-10-2001).]

[Bander]

mscdex.exe for cdrom
I'll try to copy from A: to C:
Thanks for the come back
Question: Would my boot disk for 98se
already have the cdrom support on it and
should I try to just load that on there in
instead?

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[davidgsmith]

Hello,
A Win98 bootdisk "may" work depending on the hardware.

You may find mscdex.exe in your Windows/Command directory. Just copy it to your C:\ drive.

Dave

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[Bander]

Thanks for the come back I'm at work now,
will try something later on with this file
really appreciate all the helpful advice.
Lowell


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[Bander]

I got something else wrong, the system can't
recognize the cdrom drive, the LED light stays on all the time-never goes out even after start up, missing a jumper some place
this is getting more detailed as I go along
this free gratis stuff will drive you nuts


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[SKA]

If your CD-ROM drive light stays on all the time, you MIGHT have your cable plugged into your CD drive upside-down. Make sure the red stripe is plugged into the pin-one side.

[Bander]

Thanks for the come back. this pin on the bus cable has orinitation groves on it that don't allow it to be placed in wrong. Thanks
again for the thought.

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[davidgsmith]

Hi Bander,
Before we go any further, let's establish what you are trying to do.

From what I have gleened here, you have an older computer with Windows 95 installed already, and you are trying to get the CD to work in DOS?

Does it work in Windows?
Is the CD on it's own IDE cable or is it slaved to the hard drive?
Is the CD jumpered correctly?
For DOS, do you have the CD's driver loading the the config.sys file and mscdex.exe loading in the autoexec.bat file?

Let us know,
Dave

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[This message has been edited by davidgsmith (edited 12-11-2001).]

[Eeyore]

Unplug the data cable from the CDROM. With only the power lead connected to the CDROM, turn on the computer and see if the light stays on.

If not, open the tray and put a CD in the drive. The light should come on for 2 to 15 seconds then go out.

In either case, if the light stays on, the CDROM is bad. I had a neighbor with a 5 week old CDROM that did this. It was a low quality CDROM. The store balked that it only had a 30 day warranty. Fortunately they replaced it. As they say, you get what you pay for.
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[Bander]

Thanks Dave:
Its an older system, with a 500mg hard drive
thats have been formated, the cdrom has never
worked in this system before. the cdrom
driver when loaded in on A: asks if mscdex.exe is on the C: and states that if
it is not that the installation will be
terminated. and it does terminate without an
install. But while working on this I have noticed that the cd rom light never goes out.
its buss cord comes from a seperate riser card not the motherboard. so I don't know
for sure what jumpers are placed. What I have
done is went to an auction and placed a bid
on another motherboard fairly cheap with
a set of setup instructions.
Thanks for your help I appreciate it..



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[jdc2000]

If the CD-ROM drive ribbon cable connects to an add-in card, it may not be an IDE CD-ROM Drive. There may be some lettering on the card that indicates what type of interface the CD-ROM drive is connected to. You might see any of the following:

Panasonic
Sony
IDE

or something else

Also, if it is an IDE CD-ROM drive, there should be a set of 6 pins (for 3 jumper positions) on the back of the drive for setting it as Master, Slave, or Cable Select. If you don't have any jumpers like this, it may be a drive that uses one of the proprietary interfaces listed above. If it is a proprietary interface, you will need special DOS CD-ROM drivers for that specific interface to get the drive to work, even if you get a new motherboard.