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External CD Rom on laptop

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by codan

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I have wiped my Laptop and are now wishing to reinstall an OS but cannot get my External CD Rom to work. Have installed the DOS Drivers for it, do I need to load USB Dos drivers a well ? Also having problems with the A drive reading from floppys is this a software problem as well?
I have loaded all the command coms etc to C drive and it now boots to C: but thats it can't get any further. HELP!!!!!!!!!!

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by jackofalltech

How is the drive connected to the laptop. If it's USB and the manufacturer didn't provide special DOS drivers, you're going to have a tough time getting it to work.
I would look around for a small Used PC shop and try to find either a PCMCIA or a SCSI drive (with a SCSI to Parallel adapter). I use both of them as necessary.

Ralph

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