Have you been a busy little bit-torrenter lately?
Do you have tons of ISO’s laying around? Trying to mount them in Vista like you were used to in XP and not having any luck?
Our reader Tom in Wisconsin is and this sounds like a job for dum dum dum (key theme music)… AskTheAdmin!
Well it turns out the freeware utility offered from Microsoft to mount ISO Images doesn’t work in Windows Vista. Thankfully there’s another free utility that does work.
The utility that we will use is called Virtual Clone Drive. This utility will let you mount .ISO, .CCD, .DVD, .IMG, .UDF and .BIN files. Download the utility and start the setup process.
Select Yes or OK at the hardware prompt and continue. You might have to restart your computer. Now you should be able to mount any ISO image by just double-clicking on the file.
Note: If you are going to reinstall this utility, make sure you uninstall it first, or you’ll BSOD yourself repeatedly.
Double Note: This utility does not work on Windows Vista 64 bit edition.
_TheIsoLovinAdmiN_
Posted in 
Tags: 
DAEMON Tools is your friend. This also accomplishes the same thing and is free too.
http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/announcements.php
whoa, I thought Virtual Clone Drive was payware… is this a permanent Freeware? or just a temporary offer? Personally, I've found a really sweet little utility that's free, and VERY efficient with a TINY footprint, it's called imdisk. I've written a little guide on using it on my blog. here's the link to the site:
http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html#ImDisk “>http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html#ImDisk
Free-free as in always.
I hope this is permanent freeware. If not I have a copy which will save me some bucks vs. the pay for program I had been using. I have also tested this on Vista with SP1 and it is working just fine even though elby doesn't specifically say that Vista is supported. Also based on the version number of 5.3.0.1 and the last update of 4/10/08 it would appear that elby is updating this freeware, hopefully that will continue.
Yeah Jim it is permanent freeware from when M$ picked up the project and it is still being updated.
@Babylon – good info on ur site!
@MiggidtaMiggidaMack cool, glad to hear it.
One other item, VCD also had no problem when mounting a .iso from a network drive.
Thanks for stopping by Jim! And it's great to know our vcd images will work with this as well – you da man.
so what is to do for a vista 64 bit
BurnCDCC from TerabyteUnlimited (Download via FTP) not only burns and works great on Vista RC1, but it requires no install. That's my kind of utility. (Via http://www.hanselman.com) “>http://www.hanselman.com)
ftp://terabyteunlimited.com/burncdcc.zip
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.html “>http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.html
I’ve been using MagicDisc for ages, and it runs flawlessly. They have a 32 bit and 64 bit version. Both free. Both fantastic.
I have also tested this on Vista with SP1 and it is working just fine even though elby doesn’t specifically say that Vista is supported