Win3.1 won't recognize my Cd drive. Help!

[Cityscape]

For this to work properly he needs to let us know exactly he has this setup....hasn't happened yet.
For example even if he copied those to the root of C: he may need path variables to tell his setup where to look for them.

Okay patio, what do you want to know? I thought Included most of it.
Are you asking for my specs (below)?

Windows 3.1 Virtual PC Specs:
-270 MB Fat 16 HDD
-128 MB RAM
- (Host) Celeron 667 Mhz CPU
...

[Cityscape]

how did you install Windows 3.1? was it already present on a drive?

No it was not present on the drive, I booted using my dos bootdisk and typed setup.exe & did the 3.1 install.

config.sys and autoexec.bat are text files.

he needs to boot to that boot disk and run the commands:

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SYS C:
copy command.com C:\
copy config.sys C:\
copy autoexec.bat C:\

then it will boot from the HD; and autoexec.bat and config.sys will be on C:\, as well.

I did it (see below picture) and it seemed to work good. Now what?

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[BC_Programmer]

edit the files to add the proper DEVICE lines we covered earlier. Make sure tthat hte MSCDEX and the "DEVICE" line for the driver use the same name.

[Cityscape]

edit the files to add the proper DEVICE lines we covered earlier. Make sure tthat hte MSCDEX and the "DEVICE" line for the driver use the same name.

No one has told me how to edit the files yet. How do i edit them?

[patio]

Open them in Notepad...
NOTE: save the existing ones as .bak files in case you screw up...

[Cityscape]

I did the config.sys (picture below).
But I can't open the autoexec.bat, it tell me it can't open with notepad.
Also can i get step-by-step directions from here?

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[Cityscape]

So how do I get autoexec.bat to open in notepad?

[Aegis]

You can follow the advice from this PAGE of the CH site.  You'll have to use the EDIT command to change the autoexec file.

[quaxo]

Squall, there were CDs during Windows 3.1/DOS days. How do you think games like The 7th Guest, Phantasmagoria, and Mechwarrior I & II were installed and played? Phantasmagoria alone had 7 CDs if I remember right. 7th Guest was one of the first CD-ROM games, it was only made for DOS.