MSCDEX dependent programs

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Ian

I've been searching for information, so it seems I'm not the first to
encounter this problem....is it possible to get an MSDOS program, one
which uses MSCDEX to access the CD ROM drive, to work properly under
Windows XP? Is there some way to fool it? Is it possible to use
MSCDEX under XP in such a way that this will work?

I'm using XP Home, and I'm trying to use XAEX, an XA audio extractor.
 
Not sure as I've never heard of that program, but I'm curious as to why you
would even want to use an old DOS based audio extractor in XP when there are
several excellent and totally free Windows based programs such as CDex and
Audiograbber.
 
Oh, now I see what that is. I thought it was for audio cds but it's for
Playstation discs. In that case I would check for an updated version or a
different one based on Windows. I don't think XP will allow old programs to
access hardware directly.
 
No. DOS knows nothing about NTFS and can not see files on a NTFS partition.

Win XP is a newer version of NT, which, in order to provide a more stable
operating environment than DOS, Win 3.x, Win 95/98/ME, does not allow
software to make direct calls to hardware.

steve
 
Actually no version of NT has ever allowed direct access to hardware.

There is software available that allow DOS to access NTFS partitions.
 
Mark said "Actually no version of NT has ever allowed direct access to
hardware."

which is what I said -- notice that I put XP and NT together at one end of
the sentence and 16-bit operating systems at the other end of the sentence.

Mark said: "software available that allow DOS to access NTFS partitions."

Only so far as to enable 16-bit Operating Systems "see" NTFS partitions and
manipulate the files therein. Do you know of any that are actually a real
DOS Operating System that can view NTFS partitions while running 16-bit
applications that make direct hardware calls? I'm not aware of any...


steve
 
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