JSI Tip 0825. How do I use a DVD drive in Windows NT?

Jerold Schulman

November 8, 1998

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Native DVD support will first arrive with the release of Windows 2000, but it is for reading data only.

Today, you must use a 3rd party Windows NT drivers, provided by the hardware vendor.

Creative Labs has an NT 4.0 driver for their DVD drive.

To install, first expand it using dvdent4 -d. Switch to the Drivers folder and run setup.exe. Reboot and run setup from the Appl folder.

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