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[The Fifth Horseman]

I strongly advise against mounting entire drives. The sheer risk of f***ing something up when trying to get to your games is too great.

mount c c:/games

Will be much safer.

[Scatty]

QUOTE(the_fifth_horseman @ Aug 7 2006, 01:28 PM) [snapback]247155[/snapback]

I strongly advise against mounting entire drives. The sheer risk of f***ing something up when trying to get to your games is too great.

mount c c:/games

Will be much safer.
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Some games have problem to save games with mounting folders as I noticed, I suppose because they can't find out where they're saving them to as the mounted folder is neither a true drive nor a true folder. That's why I proposed the method above.

[Eagle of Fire]

I strongly advise against mounting entire drives. The sheer risk of f***ing something up when trying to get to your games is too great.[/b]

This make no sense. What exactly would there be to f*** up..?

[Data]

deltree *.8 /y


or installing windows inside dosbox and going with the default c:\windows location.

[Eagle of Fire]

Hummm... Well, deltree don't exist in DOSBox (gives me an illegal command) and newbies would never think about installing Windows 3.1 in DOSBox. This is really an advanced problem.

If someone can screw his C:\ drive in DOSBox, maybe he should consider stopping playing with computers altogether. :P

[Data]

Well It has happened
(the windows case that is)

[The Fifth Horseman]

EoF... well, how about almost anything in C:\Windows ? My stay on Abandonia has taught me meny things, but above all...

"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity"

You never really know what a noob might do after reading your instructions.
Even less, what might happen if they tried to combine it with some "ingenious" idea a friend of theirs mentioned in a completely different context altogether.
Therefore, the less risk is taken, the better.

[Scatty]

I'm sure that's up to them to take the risk. The worst thing they'll get out of doing something stupid is learning something new. No need to watch after newbies like after children, it's more worthwhile to have own :bleh:

[The Fifth Horseman]

It's only for one reason - so they don't come back to flame us for damage they caused themselves.

[Eagle of Fire]

Alright, we all got the point. However, I need to point out that Troubleshooting is not meant to have a conversation, so we should either take it elsewhere or stop the conversation here.