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Mounting a directory on the HDD as a CD-ROM in pure DOS

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First post, by badmojo

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Back in the day I had a handy little utility that allowed me to 'mount' a HDD directory as the CD-ROM drive. i.e., you could copy the contents of a CD-ROM to the HDD and trick software doing a check for the CD into thinking the directory was a CD. Am I making any sense?

Now that I have a CF card in my 486 and therefore disk space to burn, I'd like to use this trick again. Does anyone know what that util might be called?

Thanks in advance - Google couldn't answer my question, but I know that someone here will have the answer 😎

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Reply 1 of 4, by PhilsComputerLab

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SUBST command?

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Reply 2 of 4, by rgart

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FakeCD was pretty common. Look around..

bcd1_386.zip 8K BCD 1.386 - The CD faker for most PC environments (DOS, WIN 3.11, WIN '95) No NT or OS/2 support yet

cdct10s.zip 45K CDROM Cheating Tools v1.0: CDROM CHEATER v2.2, VIRTUAL CDROM v1.0, CD-UTILS v1.0 - These programs are helping you to emulate CD drives on HDD, so you will be able to run CD programs faster and better

fakecd10.zip 7K Fake-CD v1.0 - fakecd is a program that simulates a CD-ROM drive with a directory of a hard drive

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Reply 3 of 4, by Sammy

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Yes u can use FakeCD.

Or if you have an ISO of the CD, you can use SHSUCDHD.SYS and MSCDEX.EXE.
Even Win3.11 Shows the mounted ISO as a CD-Rom Drive in Explorer.

Reply 4 of 4, by badmojo

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Excellent thanks guys, I think FakeCD is the go. Nothing can stop me now Muahahahahahhahahahha

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