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First post, by Nowhere Girl

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I have a laptop with two hard disks: the smaller C drive (50 GB), which has very little space left, and D drive (100 GB), which has more space and yet was less used. Mostly as a storage space - also for games, but none of them was a DOS game, all were relatively large. I also have another games folder, on C drive (plus a few games somewhere else if DOSBox required a short path to run them. But I think these profiles were created by my cousin for me and I don't remember how Virtual HD profiles are made). So I decided to merge both "Games" folder into one, or simply to move all games from the C games folder to D games folder. D-Fend Reloaded is on drive C. Of course, I also started altering the game profiles in D-Fend Reloaded to show the new path for every game. And some error occurs anyway... I don't remember the exact message, can't test it now, but anyway my D-Fend Reloaded is not in English. It seems to have something to do with the fact that D-Fend Reloaded is not on the same drive as the games. What can I do about it?
I'm dreaming of having a desktop computer and I hope my mother will agree to buy me such a computer for Christmas - one with larger disk(s) and not such a fan of overheating as laptops are... But it's not yet Christmas and if I don't find a solution, I won't play any DOS game until Christmas...

So:
1. Please help.
2. If someone could answer an off-topic question... Are desktop computers generally less prone to get hung up than laptops (and new computers less prone than old ones), or does it have nothing to do with the computer's age and type?

Reply 1 of 2, by Jorpho

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Nowhere Girl wrote:

And some error occurs anyway... I don't remember the exact message, can't test it now, but anyway my D-Fend Reloaded is not in English.

I can't imagine what you expect anyone to do with this non-information.

You can always just ditch D-Fend Reloaded and do things the old-fashioned way. It's not necessarily that difficult.
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Are desktop computers generally less prone to get hung up than laptops (and new computers less prone than old ones), or does it have nothing to do with the computer's age and type?

This is also a fairly meaningless question. I have always been inclined to believe that a laptop's useful life will be shorter than that of a desktop, simply because a laptop has to take more physical punishment as it gets hauled around from place to place. But there is also no shortage of desktops with crappy components that will die sooner than you might expect. In any case, if a computer is regularly "getting hung up", I would be inclined to look at software problems first, and there's not necessarily any difference between desktops and laptops in that regard.

Reply 2 of 2, by Nowhere Girl

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Jorpho wrote:

I can't imagine what you expect anyone to do with this non-information.

Couldn't you be a little bit less unpleasant? For example "Sorry, but we can't help you without more information".
Some people use computers while knowing relatively little about them and being very conservative about their technical preferences. So what? Couldn't geeks be a bit more welcoming to non-specialists?
The message is something like: "No mounted drive which allows access to the physical folder (...) required to run the program. D-Fend Reloaded will try to interpret the path as a local DOSBox path.". It seems like it didn't succeed.
But still "mounting a drive" are just words for me and I don't know what's the difference between a local and non-local path.
Anyway, I prefer using D-Fend Reloaded. I just like it. It sparked my screenshot mania. I think I will clean it up after I get a desktop computer, but I will at least move all screenshots to their new places.

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