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Accessing CD drive from 98
  1. #1


    William B. Lurie Guest

    Accessing CD drive from 98

    I run Windows 98 in VPC 2004 because, although I have
    a fully legal Windows 98, drivers for 98 are no longer
    available. I have no trouble with A-drive.

    Is there a KB article telling how to read from the CD
    drive? Thank you.



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  2. #2


    Steve Jain Guest

    RE: Accessing CD drive from 98

    "William B. Lurie" wrote:

    > I run Windows 98 in VPC 2004 because, although I have
    > a fully legal Windows 98, drivers for 98 are no longer
    > available. I have no trouble with A-drive.
    >
    > Is there a KB article telling how to read from the CD
    > drive? Thank you.
    > .
    >
    there's nothing to write a KB about. If you have a CD in the host's CD
    drive, you simply mount the correct drive letter to the Win98 VMs CD.
    If you only have 1 optical drive on the host, you should be able to simply
    see the CD in Win98, or worst case, mount or attach it from the VM's system
    tray.

    --
    Cheers,
    Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
    http://vpc.essjae.com/



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  3. #3


    William B. Lurie Guest

    Re: Accessing CD drive from 98

    Steve Jain wrote:

    > "William B. Lurie" wrote:
    >

    >> I run Windows 98 in VPC 2004 because, although I have
    >> a fully legal Windows 98, drivers for 98 are no longer
    >> available. I have no trouble with A-drive.
    >>
    >> Is there a KB article telling how to read from the CD
    >> drive? Thank you.
    >> .
    >>
    > there's nothing to write a KB about. If you have a CD in the host's CD
    > drive, you simply mount the correct drive letter to the Win98 VMs CD.
    > If you only have 1 optical drive on the host, you should be able to simply
    > see the CD in Win98, or worst case, mount or attach it from the VM's system
    > tray.
    >
    Right on, Steve. Musta just not done it right last time.
    It read my CD just fine...all I had to do was click on CD.

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