How to Make Your CD-ROM Drive Accessible in Safe Mode

This article describes how to make your CD-ROM drive accessible in Safe Mode. This may be useful if you are having problems installing Windows from CD-ROM, or if you are trying to determine if CD-ROM problems also occur in Safe Mode.

To make your CD-ROM drive accessible in Safe Mode, use the following steps:

NOTE: For this procedure to work correctly, real mode CD-ROM drivers must be installed. If you are unable to obtain and install the original real mode drivers for your CD-ROM drive, consult the manufacturer of your CD-ROM drive, or see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

1. Restart your computer to a command prompt. To do so, use the appropriate method:
   
   
   • Windows 95
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     Restart your computer, and when you see the "Starting Windows 95" message, press F8, and then choose Command Prompt Only from the Startup menu.
   • Windows 98
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     Restart your computer, press and hold CTRL, and then choose Command Prompt Only from the Startup menu.
2. At the command prompt, type "win /d:m" (without quotation marks), and then press ENTER.