First post, by gab486
Hey Folks,
I'm trying to load a bunch of old dos games to a CD using win10. But I cannot access some dirs under my dos machine saying 'Invalid directory'.
What I tried so far:
1. Burn a cd normally keeping long dir names with all of my dirs (147).
2. Coverting long dir names to 8.3 format using dosbox and dos navigator (single copy of my original dirs to an another directory). This way long dir names are stripped and shown as 8.3 under windows. Burn the disc.
3. Reducing the number of dirs using subdirectories containing 50 directories each and keeping 8.3 format. Burn the disc.
Still cannot access some of them under dos.
What can I think of:
1. The directory names are somehow messed up because under windows they shown as correct 8.3 format. For example in windows is shown correctly as ADVENT~1 but is shown as ADVENT_1 under dos which is weird. So like the rest of them.
But I can access ADVANT_1 under dos, while can't access ADVENT_1 and all the rest starting with ADVENT_. (see pics) Directories starting with ADVEN_ are all accessible (like ADVEN_10, _11 and so on). Under windows all dirs can be accessed.
2. Try another cdrom driver. Currently I use WCD in config.sys as follows:
DEVICEHIGH=C:\UTIL\WCD.SYS /D:WP_CDROM
Mscdex setting in autoexec.bat:
LH C:\UTIL\CD\MSCDEX.EXE /D:WP_CDROM /M:15 /E /L:D
3. Some setting I'm not aware from config.sys/autoexec.bat.
Bios cannot let me set the drive as CDROM so it left as NONE.
Can you guess what's getting messed up? Sorry for the long post and thanks.
