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First post, by Brevon

Posted on 2008-08-21, 08:16

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I don't understand what is happening here.

I mount the drive like I am supposed to(mount c c:\games), I switch to the c prompt(c:), then I put in(cd\games; c:\games; cd games; c:games) and none of them go to the games directory... It just says one of two things(Unable to change to: games; Unable to change to: \games; Illegal command: C:\games) I got it to work ONCE, it went to the prompts like it should, I was able to load the game, and everything was fine.

Now it won't do it and my brain is going to explode since I'm following what I'm supposed to do and it won't go, and that it worked before and why not now?!?!!

I hope someone knows what is happening here and how to fix it.

Huge thanks to whomever can sort this out!

~Brevon

Reply 1 of 21, by wd

Posted on 2008-08-21, 08:32

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If you do "mount c c:\games" then the c-drive in dosbox is your c:\games
directory on your real system.
Just do a DIR on the dosbox c-drive to check out what's there.

Reply 2 of 21, by Brevon

Posted on 2008-08-21, 08:37

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Yeah, it's there. I'm actually an old dos user, love the program! Anyways, it is indeed there, like I said it worked that one time and now it's not going.

Reply 3 of 21, by Qbix

Posted on 2008-08-21, 08:41

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mount c c:\
c:
cd games

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How to ask questions the smart way!

Reply 4 of 21, by Brevon

Posted on 2008-08-21, 08:43

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Unable to change to: games.

That's what I get when I do it like you just suggested. I realize how to do it, it just won't go...

Reply 5 of 21, by Qbix

Posted on 2008-08-21, 09:21

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then there is no folder games on c:\
or you have totally no access to it .

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Reply 6 of 21, by Brevon

Posted on 2008-08-21, 09:32

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Hmmmmm, makes me wonder if it is some stupid Vista administrator problem.... Gonna check that out and see what happens.

Reply 7 of 21, by Brevon

Posted on 2008-08-21, 09:42

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........ No dice.....

I was already set as an administrator....

The file is there too, I checked it again... Looking right at syndicate, raptor and DOOM 2...

Reply 8 of 21, by Brevon

Posted on 2008-08-21, 09:47

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I also tried reinstalling it.
The version is 0.72

I'm going off line for about 5-6 hours, so, if anyone has any suggestions as to what to try or do, I'll give them a whirl when I get back.

Thanks for all of your input so far as well!

~Brevon

Reply 9 of 21, by wd

Posted on 2008-08-21, 09:50

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The file is there too

file!=directory

Reply 10 of 21, by Brevon

Posted on 2008-08-21, 09:56

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Err yeah, directory(folder) whichever. Typing in a hurry.... That's what I meant, sorry for the confusion.

Reply 11 of 21, by MiniMax

Posted on 2008-08-21, 11:17

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mount C "C:\games"
C:
dir

What does that give you?

mount -u C
mount C "C:\"
C:
dir

What does that give you?

Reply 12 of 21, by Brevon

Posted on 2008-08-21, 15:37

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. <dir>
.. <dir>
Doom2 <dir>
Raptor <dir>
Syndic~1 <dir>
Zipfil~1 <dir>

These are the results of your first request.(above)

The second suggestion is showing all of my directories, as you would imagine, had to use the old /p command to see them all, and "games" is there.

Reply 13 of 21, by wd

Posted on 2008-08-21, 16:16

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So where's the problem? Read again my first reply.

Reply 14 of 21, by Brevon

Posted on 2008-08-21, 16:37

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Ugh...... I'm doing everything the way I should be. It worked ONE time, so I know it's possible.... I've tried everything that everyone here has suggested. The time that it did work, I went about it the same way everyone has been telling me to. By the way, it wasn't working before it decided to work either. I was having the same problem then as I am now.

Reply 15 of 21, by Brevon

Posted on 2008-08-21, 16:52

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AHHHHHHHH HAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!

I think I have it figured out, I'm getting confused that I should be seeing something like C:\games\doom2> When "Games" is the "C:\" itself! I tried cd doom2 and now I have "C:\DOOM2>" I think I'm good. I'll post to let everyone know if this is good or not.

Reply 16 of 21, by Brevon

Posted on 2008-08-21, 17:09

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Yep, I'm good! Thanks for everyone's input. It did good to get my head going with the problem.

~Brevon

Reply 17 of 21, by wd

Posted on 2008-08-21, 17:20

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I think I'm good.

Sort of.

Reply 18 of 21, by forreuse

Posted on 2011-05-23, 12:10

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Hello, sorry for bringing this old post again up.
I have the exact same problem... Tried everything suggested already but still it is not working.
I played Master of Orion 2 once with dosbox everything ran just fine. But now it won't start again. I mount C: but then it gives me "unable to change to..."

I run a win7 64 bit system.