# Adding and removing DOS drives

Go to Drives ▸ Show DOS Drives to open the Drives Inspector. This panel shows what DOS drives are available and lets you add, remove, and swap between drives.

### To add a drive to DOS:

- If you have a physical CD, insert it into your Mac’s DVD drive. Boxer will add it automatically to DOS.

  Boxer will do likewise when you insert a 3.5" floppy disk into a USB floppy drive connected to your Mac.

- If you have a folder or disc image, drag it into the Drives Inspector. Boxer will add it as a new drive of the appropriate type (hard disk for regular folders, CD-ROM or floppy disk for disc images).

- If you need more control over the drive type and letter, click the button on the Drives Inspector: this will bring up a file picker with advanced drive options.

### To swap between CDs/floppies:

When you add extra CDs or floppies, they will go into a queue with any previous CD/floppy, using the same drive letter.

You can then swap between each CD/floppy in a queue:

- Use the Drives ▸ Next Disc menu item to cycle through the CDs/floppies; or
- Go to the Drives Inspector and double-click a specific CD/floppy to swap to it.

If you want to have CDs/floppies on separate drive letters — e.g. one floppy at drive A and another at drive B — then add the drives manually with the button as described above.

### To remove a drive from DOS:

- Drag the drive out of the Drives Inspector until the cursor changes to a puff of smoke, and then release it. The drive will be removed from DOS and will disappear from the list.

- If you want to temporarily deactivate a drive, then select the drive and click the button: this removes the drive from DOS but leaves it in the drive list. To reactivate the drive, double-click the drive or click the button.

## Bundling additional drives into a gamebox

Each of your gameboxes contains a drive C for the hard disk where the game is installed, and often a drive D for the game’s CD-ROM. Because they’re part of the gamebox, these drives are always available in DOS when you run the game.

If you want additional drives to be always available to the game — for instance, extra CDs for a multi-CD game — then you can bundle them into the gamebox too:

1. Add the drive to DOS if it isn’t already, by following the instructions above.
2. In the Drives Inspector, select the drive and click on the icon; or right-click on the drive and choose Import into Gamebox.
3. Make a cup of tea while the drive imports.

Once the import is finished, the drive will be a permanent part of the gamebox and always there when you run the game.

The import process will physically copy the drive’s contents into the gamebox, creating a duplicate of the original folder or image used for the drive. You don’t need to keep the original around after this.

### Further reading

- Swapping CDs in multi-CD games
- Introducing gameboxes