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
32 (32 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 32

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