Shouldn't a CD driver be in my system.ini?

Can't seem to get Norton Ghost to recognize my Sony CD-DVD drive from
DOS reboot. Shouldn't there be a basic ATAPI driver in the
system.ini files for this drive? Thnx, Bonnie

Windows XP does not need the system.ini file to load/install drivers for a
CD drive; they are included as a part of XP.

Now, if you're talking about booting to DOS then you need lines in both
CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to have a CD drive recognized and that info is
peculiar to the drive itself and provided by the manufacturer.

"Bonnie" <JECElectNospam@optonline.net> wrote in message
news:j9ppp1p585kph7brvnp1eg9ctpiaijgfhj@4ax.com...
> Can't seem to get Norton Ghost to recognize my Sony CD-DVD drive from
> DOS reboot. Shouldn't there be a basic ATAPI driver in the
> system.ini files for this drive? Thnx, Bonnie

You may create a normal DOS boot disk from Windows and there should be
a line in CONFIG.SYS to configure a basic ATAPI CD-ROM drive for you.

If you don't know how to create a normal DOS boot disk, check
http://www.bootdisk.com for details.

Thanks Jerry & Wyatt........ Now I see what I need to do.


On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 21:58:13 -0500, Bonnie
<JECElectNospam@optonline.net> wrote:

>Can't seem to get Norton Ghost to recognize my Sony CD-DVD drive from
>DOS reboot. Shouldn't there be a basic ATAPI driver in the
>system.ini files for this drive? Thnx, Bonnie