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Burning CDs in DOS?

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First post, by Baoran

Posted on 2017-06-11, 01:22

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I installed Mitsumi 8x/2x cd drive in my retro dos pc because it seemed to be most reliable out of my old optical cd drives when it comes to reading CDs. Now I am in a situation where I have to format hard drive again and I started to wonder if there would be a way to make a backup all the games that I have already installed by burning the files to a CD in dos. Is there any way to burn CDs using that drive in ms-dos 6.22?

Reply 1 of 7, by clueless1

Posted on 2017-06-11, 01:49

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I don't think so. I usually just move the hdd to a Windows PC and copy the games folder over to a backup folder.

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Reply 2 of 7, by NJRoadfan

Posted on 2017-06-11, 02:34

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Golden Hawk, makers of CDRWIN, used to sell a suite of DOS CD burning tools. Good luck finding them nowadays.

Reply 3 of 7, by Jorpho

Posted on 2017-06-11, 04:46

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I'm pretty sure such utilities exist. If all else fails, I'm certain Norton Ghost can do it.

Reply 4 of 7, by Baoran

Posted on 2017-06-11, 12:13

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I have been trying to look around internet. There are programs that some people talk about like there is suppose to be a dos version of cdrtools and a program called doscdroast, but I have not been able to find a working download for any of them.