I cannot access my CD-ROM from my PC emulator. Although the drive shows up as D: when booting when I try to list all of the files in the directory by typing "DIR" (without the quotation marks) all it does is display a message saying the drive format is not High Sierra or ISO 9660. What can I do?

It is difficult to know what is happening without your exact system specs. Examine your CONFIG.SYS by typing:

EDIT C:/CONFIG.SYS

There should be a line somewhere that looks similar to the one below.

DEVICE=PCTCDROM.SYS /D:scsi.device,2

Replicate "scsi.device" for the name of the controller that handles your CD drive, and 4 should be changed for the unit, such as atapi.device,1, etc.

Save the file and exit to DOS. Now type,

MSCDEX /D:MSCD001

Alternatively you can put the command in your AUTOEXEC.BAT (the PC's version of a startup-sequence. If DOS claims it cannot find the file MSCDEX you will need to get it either from a generous PC owning friend or off the internet. It is freely available so do not worry about software piracy. This may not work but you can always give it a try.

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