Anyone know if you can read a DVD data disc from DOS?

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Jan 03, 2003 9:22 pm

If you boot into DOS using a 98 Emergency Disk and load DOS CD drivers, can you read a data DVD from DOS? I'm not sure if MSCDEX can handle DVDs. I don't have a DVD data CD here otherwise I'd try it myself. Anyone know?

I have a cousin with with DVD Burner and I'm going to walk him through making a Ghost image of his boot drive this weekend because he had a close call today (disabled McAfee firewall which pooched screwed his whole system until I walked him through the fix).

I was going to have him save the Ghost images to CD-Rs as normal, but then he reminded me that he has a DVD burner and asked if we could burn the image files to that.

If DOS can't read DVD data discs then there's no point in it because you won't be able to do a recovery from the image, but it would be nice it it did work. Instead of 6 or 7 CDs he could put all the Ghost image files on one DVD.

Hipnotic_Tranz · Post by **Hipnotic_Tranz** » Sat Jan 04, 2003 11:59 am

I would assume it would work. It'd just be like when CD-R's first came out. All you would need (I would think) is a player capable of reading the disc (in this situation a DVD-ROM). That is unless the way data is burned on to DVD's is different and thus can be read on any CD-ROM (don't know?).

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Sat Jan 04, 2003 10:23 pm

i would like to know if this works as well. i bet it will...if the drivers are available for DOS it shouldn't be a problem...i would think DOS won't know the difference.

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Schwartz · Post by **Schwartz** » Sat Jan 04, 2003 10:59 pm

I made an image of my HD to DVD-R using the latest version of Ghost.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 1:50 am

SCHWARTZ: Yes, but can you read that DVD-R from DOS if you boot from a 98 boot disk?