![]() I tried the current versions of Daemon Tools and Virtual Clone Drive – both resulted in warnings from Vista that they aren’t compatible with this version of Windows. However, none of the above seem to work with Windows Vista, or get past Vista’s installer warnings. ), and Daemon Tools – the latter led me (finally) to VCD back in the Windows XP days. There are others – like MagicISO (full version is about 30 bucks. Virtual Clone Drive (VCD), a free and well-written utility, is one of them. Once mounted, the image shows up as a CD/DVD drive in Windows Explorer and is usable as such. ![]() On Windows XP, there were a number of free utilities, including a Microsoft PowerToy called Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel (the cool-product-naming-dept at work again? :), that let you mount ISO images as virtual drives. ![]() It seems the whole world has moved to downloadable software images in ISO formats – whether it be puny (by today’s standards) CD images of 650/700 MB or larger chunks of code that requires a DVD – a lot of the software we download today is in the form of ISO images that otherwise requires burning the image on a CD or DVD before it can be used.
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