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More information on mounting drives in DOSBox here. So, if you want to mount your C: drive, create a folder on it for your games and mount that folder, for example mount c c:\games\dos. Or even worse, it starts low level formatting your hard drive. Also, if you launch a DOS virus, it may be able to reach your system files and do some harm there. DOSBox doesn't ask or warn you if you're about to delete entire directories, so you can seriously mess up your computer. Because it also means that DOSBox has access to all your files, including your operating system files. This is however not recommended to put it mildly. It's perfectly possible to mount your entire C: drive in DOSBox with mount c c:, which means your entire C: drive will be available as C. If the folder name of your game has any spaces in it, you must enclose the path and folder name in quotation marks, i.e. More information about mounting an image is here.

In DOSBox, type d: and press enter to go to the mounted image.

In DOSBox, you mount the virtual F: drive as a normal CD drive in DOSBox with mount d f:\ -t cdrom and press enter.

In this example the virtual CD drive will be F:

Mount the image to your system with Virtual Clone Drive.

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You can also mount the ISO as a CD-ROM drive in your system and mount this CD-ROM drive in DOSBox:

In DOSBox, type e: and press enter to go to the image.

In DOSBox, type imgmount e c:\games\game.iso -t iso and press enter.

In this example, the ISO image game.iso is in c:\games.

You can mount the ISO directly in DOSBox: There are several options to mount an image with DOSBox.

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Also see the installation manual of Tomb Raider in DOSBox. If the mounting of your CD-rom doesn't work, you can try and create an ISO image of your CD with, for example, CDBurnerXP and mount that image.

If the game needs a CD label for installation, type mount d i:\ -t cdrom -label CDLABEL and press enter (replace CDLABEL with the label of your CD).

Anyway, here are my terse, working steps for getting very nice Win95 DOSBox images. The walkthroughs online had some skippable steps and I ran into some problems, and then I got distracted optimizing it.

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Type mount d i:\ -t cdrom and press enter I needed Windows to run SimTower, so I decided to try getting Win95 to run on DOSBox.

Mounting of a CD-rom drive (in this example the i: drive) goes as follows: Installing of the game in Windows doesn't work, but you can do that in DOSBox instead. Perhaps you've got a CD-rom lying around with a cool DOS game on it. An extensive list of all configuration options in the nf file can be found at the nf page on the DOSBox wiki.

This (and other stuff from this page) also can be found on the DOSBox wiki in the Basic Setup and Installation section. See the installation manual of Tomb Raider in DOSBox for an example.

If your games folder contains spaces, you have to put quotes around the folder path, for example: mount c "c:\games\dos games".

On a new and empty line, type in mount c c:\games\dos.

Windows 8: Press the Windows key + Q, type in dosbox and the options file should appear in the search results, click it.

Windows 7: Press CTRL + ESC (or click the start button), type in dosbox and the options file should appear in the search results, click it.

If you use DOSBox a lot, you'll probably want to automate the mounting of the virtual DOSBox drive.

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Accidents happen, and with Dell’s Accidental Damage Service you can reduce the downtime.Mounting is a process that makes a storage device (hard disk, CD-rom, CD- or DVD image) accessible within an operating system or within certain software like DOSBox. When necessary, Dell will provide onsite support to ensure repairs are done quickly and conveniently. Plus, Dell SupportAssist technology remotely monitors PCs and tablets, provides notifications for issues that arise and automatically creates a case to resolve them. Dell ProSupport provides direct access to ProSupport engineers who provide help for hardware and software challenges 24x7.

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ProSupport Plus provides all the support essentials that will reduce downtime automatically. This end to end support service also includes 24x7 priority access to ProSupport engineers who provide help for hardware and software challenges, repair for devices that are accidentally damaged and the ability to keep a hard drive after replacement allowing you to ensure your data is stays secure.When necessary, Dell will provide onsite support to ensure repairs are done quickly and conveniently. Dell’s SupportAssist will detect when a hard drive or battery is about to fail, automatically create a case for resolution and notify the customer that the new hardware is on its way.