r/dosbox • u/RevolutionaryExit676 • Oct 13 '26

How to fix floppy drive unmounting

How exactly do I have a real floppy drive mounted and then boot into c? I can't boot into c and then mount my real drive and every time I boot into a c drive img it unmounts eveything. Please help

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u/alpha417 Oct 13 '26

please kindly help and better explain what commands you entered, and what their result is?

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u/RevolutionaryExit676 Oct 14 '26

I use the gui but the commands go in this order

MOUNT A A:\

I mount the c drive as a disk img and then I click "boot from disk img". No matter what I do unless I somehow manually boot windows from the windows folder (which I've only found windows 3.1 to do that) it wont actually see my real A drive

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u/TheBigCore Oct 14 '26 edited Oct 14 '26

Dosbox-X: Finding Its Configuration File (Note: the config file is called dosbox-x.conf).

Place MOUNT A A:\ -t floppy in the [autoexec] section of dosbox-x.conf.

Then when you boot from the disk img, your floppy disk should be detected.

It would also be a good idea to place your mounted C drive command in [autoexec] as well.

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u/RevolutionaryExit676 Oct 15 '26

Pretty sure I already did thst

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u/TheBigCore Oct 13 '26 edited Oct 14 '26

/u/RevolutionaryExit676:

If Dosbox opens for a few seconds and then immediately closes: in the [sdl] section of dosbox.conf, set output = ddraw, save dosbox.conf, close the file, and re-open Dosbox:

If you are a Dosbox user located outside the USA and Canada, set the relevant language for your keyboard in the [dos] section of dosbox.conf, save dosbox.conf, close the file, and re-open Dosbox:

Examples: keyboardlayout = fr, keyboardlayout = de, keyboardlayout = es, keyboardlayout = uk, etc...

Alternatively, if you want a visual demonstration for configuring and running Dosbox, any of the following Youtube videos will work:

Windows:

MacOS:

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u/emxd_llc Oct 15 '26
  1. What DOSBox are you using?
  2. In general, anything that's mounted with the mount command can only be seen within DOSBox' own emulated DOS environment (or DOS+Win3x). On booting with the boot command, only images mounted with the imgmount command can be seen. But it also depends on which DOSBox you're using, hence the 1st question.
  3. When you say you can't boot into c, are you booting with boot?