Harry Potter wrote on Yesterday, 00:23:

DustyShinigami: Just an unrelated tip: when you run a batch file, DOS will automatically print out every line of the batch file it runs. You can disable this by adding "@echo off" to the beginning of the file. This will tell DOS to not display each line. DOS will reset this at the end of the batch file or when a new batch file starts. Putting @ at the beginning of a line will tell DOS not to display just that line.

Thanks. Oh yeah, I’m aware about the Echo part. Although I wasn’t aware about the @. 🙂 I do sometimes add it, but often I just forget. Once everything’s working as it should, I’ll be sure to add it.

Good. 😀

NeoG_ wrote on 2026-04-26, 22:45:

OK so you will need to adjust your strategy somewhat to correctly mount and unmount images multiple times per reboot […]
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OK so you will need to adjust your strategy somewhat to correctly mount and unmount images multiple times per reboot

• Running "SHSUCDX /D:MSCD001" once at boot time in autoexec is fine
• SHSUCDX needs to be unloaded to correctly run a new drive configration with "SHSUCDX /U" before running it again
• You have set drive letter "E" which is an unavailable drive letter for the virtual CD, it may affect drive letter assignments
• After running the game you need to reset SHSUCDHX and SHSUCDHD to remove the virtual images

So at the start of a game's batch file you will need

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1REM Replace physical drive with virtual drive
2SHSUCDX /U
3LH SHSUCDHD /F:E:\DOS\MOON\CD1\DISK1.ISO /F:E:\DOS\MOON\CD2\DISK2.ISO /F:E:\DOS\MOON\CD3\DISK3.ISO /F:E:\DOS\MOON\CD4\DISK4.ISO
4LH SHSUCDX /D:SHSU-CDH,G

And after the game has run at the end of the batch file

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1REM Unload virtual CD drive and restore physical drive
2SHSUCDX /U
3SHSUCDHD /U
4LH SHSUCDX /D:MSCD001,G

Great. This works perfectly! Thank you. 😄

So the SHSUCD driver has to be uninstalled first before it can set the virtual drives up properly?

Also, regarding this:

1REM Replace physical drive with virtual drive
2SHSUCDX /U
3LH SHSUCDHD /F:E:\DOS\MOON\CD1\DISK1.ISO /F:E:\DOS\MOON\CD2\DISK2.ISO /F:E:\DOS\MOON\CD3\DISK3.ISO /F:E:\DOS\MOON\CD4\DISK4.ISO
4LH SHSUCDX /D:SHSU-CDH,G

Not sure if it was intentional, but I see you’ve added each disk on a new line. Can that be done in a batch file? Because when I tried it just gave me a Bad command or file name for each. Like it doesn’t understand the break and that the first line is linked to the other commands.

It’s a formatting issue on the forum, I didn’t put each disc on a new line it just appears that way on smaller screens because of word wrap

NeoG_ wrote on Yesterday, 22:06:

It’s a formatting issue on the forum, I didn’t put each disc on a new line it just appears that way on smaller screens because of word wrap

Ahh, so it does. Yeah, I was looking at it on my phone at the time. ^^;