Newbie: running Dos6.22 under XP

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Stacey M

I am running XP with 4 HDDs (all NTFS).
I have loaded Parallels Worksation and got the MS DOS 6.22 OS workin.
BUT how do you access a HDD?
when in Dos I type c: or d: .... and nothing
do I have to create a partition etc?
is there a problem because the .hdd file resides on a NTFS drive?

Another question:
Assuming I get the OS accessing a hdd. Is it easy enough transfering files between the physical hdd and the virtual hdd?

 

[Andrew @ Parallels]

When your working with virtual machine you deal with virtual hard disk which actually resides in your primary OS file system as normal file with *.hdd extension. In guest DOS you'll be able to see content of this virtual disk - not primary disk.

To share your files between primary OS and guest OS you could use floppy, CD or network share (and shared folder in OS X version).