http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html
When you start moving into the world of virtualization or disc archiving, you come upon a day when all of the sudden, it just doesn't make sense to have all those discs lying around. Also, if you are working on a virtual server/workstation, and need to mount some ISO files within Windows, you need something ridiculously easy.Enter SlySoft (used to be 'Elaborate Bytes '- but development is being continued by SlySoft) 'Virtual CloneDrive'. This little program makes attaching to ISO files easy as a double-click. You can attach up to as many drive letters as you have remaining (after taking into account attached network and physical disks)...
What makes Virtual CloneDrive stand out is the pure ease of attaching to an ISO image. The first one is simplest; just double-click and go.
The next ISO you double-click switches out the first mounted image for the new one - but leaves the old ISO path in the recent history for Virtual CloneDrive, making it easy to pick your drive letter, then mount an ISO image from the listing.
The summary of Virtual CloneDrive says "Image files generated with CloneDVD or CloneCD can be mounted onto a virtual drive..." - but you can mount any supported image type made by any disc image creation program.
Features
What I really liked was the fact you did not have to restart your computer after installing the software, much like you do with another of my favorites: Alcohol 52% (or Deamon Tools).- Supports all common image formats such as ISO, BIN, CCD (also DVD, IMG and UDF - Rob)
- Supports up to 8 virtual drives at the same time
- Easy to use - just double-click an image file to mount as a drive
- Virtual CloneDrive is freeware, you may use it at no cost.
System Requirements
(I love that they say "IBM-compatible" - that's old school!)
- An IBM-compatible personal computer with a minimum 500 MHz Pentium-class microprocessor (1 GHz recommended) and 128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended)
- Windows 98/98SE/ME/2000/XP/XP64/VISTA/VISTA64
- If you use Windows 2000 or Windows XP you must be an administrator to install Virtual CloneDrive
(I love that they say "IBM-compatible" - that's old school!)
Likes
- Easy to use, this couldn't be any simpler
- No rebooting required
- Runs on 64-bit Operating Systems
- Quick
Dislikes
- Would like to see the software automatically mount subsequent ISO files that were double-clicked, rather than mount them as the first drive and list the others as 'ready to mount'
- Would like to see it have the ability to mount more types of image files, similar to Alcohol 52%.
Easy! No spills and no mess!
Alternatives:
Need to make an ISO?
5 comments:
I am a long time Virtual Clone Drive user myself, but would love to be able to mount ISOs from a portable application on a pendrive. I've searched and found a few apps that claim to be able to do it but nothing that I've been able to actually use. Can anyone recommmend anything along those lines?
Have you tried Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for Windows XP. You should be able to unzip the files to a portable drive and launch it from there. See the following link.
http://weblogs.asp.net/pleloup/archive/2004/01/15/58918.aspx
Try magic disc, it is awesome. no reboot, freeware, runs on 64 bit, uses tons of formats. I used to use daemon-tools, but now use this.
Two remarks about your new layout.
1. When I go the the freewarejunkie.com, the first thing I see is the top number of votes. And the list filles now up the screen. A top list is nice, but I want to see your choices first, so maybe that should go into a pane to the right or the left?
2. I'm the only one who voted on this item? But there are more people who commented? Is this a bug in the voting mechanism or is it really the case?
can some one please help me im new to the ISO virtual drive stuff and doing very well but i have one question that i cant seem to get answered on line can you mount more then one image to one virtual drive like i downloaded some games can i put more then one game in that drive? please help randyb1608@hotmail.com thanx very much
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