Installing old PC games that want drive D

[vertigo]

I can't install a few old Win95 games I have from their CDs because they seem to think that they want drive D to be the CD drive, otherwise it's not having it and they stop the install.
There aren't any batch files pointing to the right install drives I can edit to tell them where to look.

I have 2 HDs that use drive letters C and D, a normal CD-ROM drive for everyday use on E and a DVD-RAM drive on F as well as Daemon Tools which sits on G.

Is there a way to reassign drive letters in a way that doesn't involve installing some stupid resource-hogging application, or a reliable way to install these games?

I have tried installing them straight in XP Pro but it won't have it and have tried using DOSBox which has got me as far as the drive letter problem.

Any advice greatly appreciated.

[babs]

Right click My Computer > Manage > Disk Managment.

Right Click the D drive > Change Drive letter and paths.

I think you can do the same for CD/DVD drives via device manager.

Also try VDMSound as an alternative to DOSbox, see if that gets further. I think under some dos emulators you can change settings and assign windows cd/dvd drives to other letters under the emulator, but it's been a while.

[vertigo]

Will try that app.
I was looking around for the drive letter changer because I was pretty sure I'd seen it before but couldn't find it, so will go for that if I can find it in XP Pro.
Cheers.

[vertigo]

Righto, I've managed to change the drive letter and that works but now the game's telling me I don't have MSCDEX installed.
I'm trying to install the game via Dosbox in WinXP Pro. It won't do it if I just run the install file.
Ideas?

[Cobertizo]

Which game is it? It might be that that game has something specific that you can do to get it to work.

[babs]

MSCDEX is the old dos cdrom driver. It'll need to be run/emulated in dosbox. There should be a help/support place for it, look up cdrom support.

[vertigo]

Which game is it? It might be that that game has something specific that you can do to get it to work.

Well there are a few but this one is... The 7th Guest. Yeh, shut up There is an XP loader that runs the game within XP, but it seems that you can't actually install the game under XP, you have to do it under Dosbox first and then run the XP game runner because it needs the .rl files from the actual installation to work properly. That's how I understand it anyway, unless I need to point the game runner at the CD drive instead. I dunno. PCs get on my tits, Windows lack of proper backwards compatibility even more so. And there's no way in hell I'm changing to Windows Vista just so the ****ing GUI can suck up even more system resources.
But yeh it looks like I'll have to work out how to get MSCDEX to run inside Dosbox, which is a pain. Hopefully then I can get these games to work.

[vertigo]

Quick update, once I mounted my c and cd drives in dosbox I managed to install, and then used the special patched player to play it. It all works fine. Thanks for your help everyone, even if the game and FMVs do suck balls, I never finished it back in the day and this will also help me play the other old games I have lying around.
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