I would suggest booting to a boot disk and choosing start with cdrom support, it will tell you what device letter it assigns to the cdrom. Put in a cd, go to the drive letter for the cdrom, eg. D:\, type in dir and hit enter. If it will not read a cd here it is probably broken, if it reads...
I believe the program here will help you out http://www.62nds.co.nz/cgi-bin/x/e2110.html
Here is a quote from the site
From DOS (i.e. before Windows 9x starts up) it will tell you:
Where Windows was installed from (will you or won’t you need the CD)
Serial Number and Product Key
Computer...
Here is a link for the full driverhttp://www2.driverguide.com/uploads/uploads7/8460.html
and the updatehttp://www2.driverguide.com/uploads/uploads6/2406.html
Hope this helps
All those ways work, but I believe this program is the best way to find out lots windows info from DOS.
http://www.62nds.co.nz/cgi-bin/x/e2110.html?aakdp
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