cd rom in safe mode

[Stealer]

Hi All,

I remember seeing somewhere that there was a way to load the cd rom drivers while being in safe mode. Is this possible?

Thanks
Stealer

 

[Sithl0rd]

Yeah its called reseting the computer in Normal mode

 

[Stealer]

Yea that's what I thought.

Thanks
Stealer

 

[cdogg]

I don't think there's a way from Safe Mode, but you can use a Win98 boot disk to a DOS prompt and use it from there if you want to avoid Normal Mode.

 

[Danp129]

You will need to have your DOS driver loading in config.sys and mscdex.exe loading in autoexec.bat. If you don't have a DOS driver disk for your CD-ROM drive, do the following if you have an IDE CD-ROM drive:

Make a win98 startup disk from add/remove programs on another machine, or one the you may already have. Copy oakcdrom.sys and mscdex.exe from the diskette to c:\.

Edit c:\config.sys to include following line:
device=c:\oakcdrom.sys /D:IDECD1

Edit c:\autoexec.bat to include following line:
LH c:\mscdex.exe /D:IDECD1


Boot the computer and hold the CTRL key down after the keyboard is detected (start tapping F8 if using win95). Choose "Command prompt only". At the C prompt, type in win/d:m to start Safe Mode. This will let you access your CD-ROM drive in safe mode, it's not going to let you burn a CD if that's what you're trying to do (backing up before a format?).

 

[Stealer]

Thanks for the replies. I was really just curious to see if it could be done. I think that it may come in handy for future use.

Stealer