Question : Problem: Accessing a USB DVD drive from a DOS boot

I'm new to EE, so if I'm doing this incorrectly, please forgive me...

I have a SONY DRX-530UL DVD+-RW external USB drive.  I have successfully created a ghost image on the drive.  I have also made a bootable CD-R with ghost.exe on it.  However, when boot that CD and run ghost, the DVD drive is not offered as a selection in the dropdown as a source for an image file.  

Does anyone know what drivers and/or config.sys and autoexec.bat settings I need so that I can access the DVD drive after the dos boot?

Thanks

Jon

      
      

Answer : Problem: Accessing a USB DVD drive from a DOS boot

BTW, what DOS you have on your boot disk - MS-DOS or PC-DOS?

I use MS-DOS (win 98) to go along with the config.sys and autoexec.bat and they work.  but I have no luck PC-DOS with the exact same set of config.sys and autoexec.bat, that combination has never worked for me.

So you have to spend a lot of time to try various combinations for your own system to work.  So far I've been successful with the set I provided on HP, Compaq and Toshiba with ALi, VIA and Intel USB controllers among them.