Using DOS Applications

[Guest]

I have a dos application but I cannot access it. When I am in the dos prompt and type in to open up drive "d" I get the following message: " 'd' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file." What can I do to access the cdrom drive and the zip drive while I am in DOS?

 

[Rob Schneider]

I have a dos application but I cannot access it. When I am in the dos prompt and type in to open up drive "d" I get the following message: " 'd' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file." What can I do to access the cdrom drive and the zip drive while I am in DOS?

Make sure these drives are mapped to a letter, e.g. d: and e: (or
whatever). Look in Explorer first.

In a command prompt box, you can change to these drives by entering the
drive letter followed by a colon, e.g. d: without the colon it is
considering these letters as commands, and since these commands or
programs aren't in the local folder or found on the path, you get that
error message back.

 

[David]

I have a dos application but I cannot access it. When I am in the dos
prompt and type in to open up drive "d" I get the following message:
" 'd' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable
program or batch file." What can I do to access the cdrom drive and
the zip drive while I am in DOS?

The proper syntax to access another drive is "x:" where x is the drive
letter you need to access. Looks like you forgot the colon ":"

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