Adrian Black from Adrian's Digital Basement did a video about Sony DAS and WINDAS. Maybe this will help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt1NtRH4BOg

Try XCOPY /S /E /V /H .....

Well that would be nice if someone can check, if a real 5170 does this too. I think it does. I had this problem in 86Box a while ago and was surprised by the solution. But those old machines have some pretty surprises today 😁

Disable the "Time Synchronization"

Thank you too. I had the same drive, disassembled and couldn't put it together. Your pictures helped and the drive is working again 😀

Example: mount c /Users// Replace with your user name. If you login as "fred", the folder is also "fred" If your DOS files are in a folder named "DOSBox", replace mount c /Users/fred/DOSBox

I had such an error years ago. Drove me crazy. The solution was to remove the battery AND to clear the CMOS. Did you try this?

Try Bluestacks: https://www.bluestacks.com/

My first guess is a virus scanner which thinks this is a virus/trojan/... and deletes the file after extraction.

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks 😀 Creative created too many SoundBlaster cards, just look at this list: https://support.creative.com/kb/showarticle.aspx?sid=10846 No wonder why there is such a chaos 😉

maxtherabbit wrote on 2020-10-29, 14:01: CTCU is required for a PnP soundblaster in DOS. You can replace it with Unisound though Weird, I also habe a SB Vibra16 and do not need these drivers. Just the BLASTER settings and the Mixerset/Diagnose commands to set the volume. Many of my games do work …

Ok, that's odd. But I have some other optimizations: - the ctcm/ctcu drivers for the soundcard can be removed, most games recognize the Soundblaster anyway. Windows also doesn't need them. - setver can be replaced by fakever.com (can be found on the internet). It's smaller and doesn't have to be …

I've optimized your config.sys and autoexec.bat. Hope it helps. config.sys DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM SWITCHES=/F DOS=HIGH,UMB FILES=40 LASTDRIVE=Z STACKS=9,256 SHELL=C:\command.com /e:1024 /p DEVICEHIGH=c:\drivers\vibra16\CTCM.EXE DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE …