Thank's indeed for the options that you provided, once I have digested same I will certainly attempt to get it up and running. I am not a serious gamer but like an old shoe I particularly liked the Janes Longbow game and it would be a shame to throw it out. Thanks again I'll let you know how I …

Thank's for your help. As a novice pardon my ignorance, but do I run the floppy after booting up XP, then run DOSBOX and mount my game folder etc.?

I have installed Dosbox on Win XP Pro and have attemped to load my old dos game Janes AH-64D Longbow (Helicopter Sim) all went fine until the message "you do not seem to have a disk caching utility such as SMARTDRV loaded". Can anyone help please?