MS CD Extensions (MSCDEX) 1.25

MSCDEX is the real-mode MS-DOS file system redirector used in conjunction with your CD-ROM driver for accessing CD drives. The CD-ROM driver, which is provided by your CD-ROM drive manufacturer, provides the hardware and protocol specific software interface to your drive. MSCDEX interfaces with this driver to present the raw CD-ROM data as a file system accessible as a DOS drive letter.

In the early days of CD-ROM drives, there were many different hardware and protocol interfaces. These included SCSI, MKE, IDE/ATAPI, and more. MSCDEX provides the drive-independent portion needed to make use of CD drives under MS-DOS.



Product type
System
Vendor
Microsoft
Release date
1997
Minimum CPU
8088
User interface
Text
Platform
DOS
Download count
9 (9 for release)

Downloads

Download name Version Language Architecture File size Downloads
Microsoft MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions 1.25 (3.5) 1.25 English 85.54KB 9

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