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Mount ISO on Vista RTM

  • Artigo

If you're like me, we keep a lot of our stuff (backups, movies, install disks) in a DVD/CD image format (ISO), here's a great way of mounting ISO images on Vista RTM and it's FREE.

(I'm running Vista RTM and mounting a Vista RTM ISO image file. Hope I don't confuse you)

They have builds for Windows 9x/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista and x64 editions.

There were some reports that it worked on Builds 5536 and some RC1s but many were having issues with getting it to work. I've just tried it on an RTM build of Vista and it worked "magically".

you can download MagicISO Virtual CD/DVD-ROM here.

 

Need a tool to make ISO images from CD/DVDs? here's a simple one from Scott Hanselman's blog: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/FreeISODiskImageBurningUtilityThatWorksOnVista.aspx

 

*UPDATE: Daemon Tools already has a Virtual CD/DVD rom tool that works on Vista too, and touted to be able to emulate all known copy protections on the market today. Try it out here: https://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/download.php?mode=ViewCategory&catid=5

Let me know which utility you like better.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 02, 2007
    Un paio di settimane fa mi serviva. Alla fine ho fattoprima a masterizzarela ISO ed installare.Poco fa

  • Anonymous
    January 02, 2007
    The WinXP Virtual CD PowerToy works on Vista, that's what I've been using.

  • Anonymous
    January 05, 2007
    I dunno on which RTM version of Vista you 'magically' istalled this.. on my 64 bit Vista RTM you can't install any driver that was not digitally signed, like this one.

  • Anonymous
    January 05, 2007
    i'm running on Vista RTM 32bit x86. Not sure about 64bit. I do have a side effect, everytime i reboot the machine, I have to reinstall MagicISO for it to work again.

  • Anonymous
    January 06, 2007
    People with vista 64 rtm ultimate edition, cannot use any of the following yet: Daemon Tools (hardly installs.. caught in a loop) UltraISO (digitally unsigned) MagicISO (digitally unsigned) PowerISO (digitally unsigned) WinImage (digitally unsigned) Vortual CD (digitally unsigned) Virtual CloneDrive (os platform not supported) TweakVI (the virtual cd plugin aint free) And guess what.. they all claim on their websites that they work specifically on vista 64 as well. Maybe they meant RC1/2. lol HELP !! =) Max

  • Anonymous
    January 06, 2007
    Another one.. VirtualISO (digitally unsigned) How in the world do you disable this digital signature mandatory on drivers ?! Max

  • Anonymous
    January 06, 2007
    And another one.. Alcohol 52% (caught in a loop 'setup needs to reboot windows' over and over again, just like with d-tools) Max

  • Anonymous
    January 08, 2007
    MagicISO doesnt work as Vista needs digitally signed drivers. Daemon Tools 4.08 works on x64 Vista. Chris

  • Anonymous
    February 06, 2007
    Use the Vista BootLoaderTool (provisional app, not included): allows unsigned apps on x64

  • Anonymous
    October 27, 2007
    Nice write-up using Virtual Clone Drive.  Works for Vista but not 64bit Vista. http://www.groovypost.com/howto/microsoft/vista/mount-iso-images-in-windows-vista-and-xp/

  • Anonymous
    December 01, 2007
    Push F8 during vista boot, and instead of selecting safe mode, choose the option that says, "Disable Driver Signature Enforcement" That's all you need to do, afaik.

  • Anonymous
    December 28, 2007
    I tried VCD first, but it would generate IO errors with ISOs that worked perfectly fine when burned.  I then tried MagicISO and it works really well for mounting these very ISOs (whose MD5 checksums were fine).

  • Anonymous
    March 17, 2008
    Daemon Tools installer has just been updated, and actually works on Vista x64. Magic ISO returns IO errors.. :-(

  • Anonymous
    July 18, 2008
    Daemon Tools now contains spyware. I would avoid it until they clean up their act.

  • Anonymous
    October 03, 2008
    @ed n Yeah, the free version has adware (not spyware, but close enough) now, but if buy the full version, there's no adware.  I wouldn't say it's a horrible deal at ~€16($25 USD), but why buy when you can get the same thing for free elsewhere?

  • Anonymous
    January 12, 2010
    How to Mount iso?  http://www.winmount.com/mount_iso.html Winmount(www.winmount.com) is a powerful windows utility which is dedicated to managing files and disks impressively and conveniently. WinMount supports compressing files to MOU  RAR ZIP 7Z, decompressing and browsing MOU ZIP RAR CAB ARJ ISO GZ BZ2 TAR WIM files. WinMount can mount MOU RAR ZIP to a virtual disk or a local folder, which enabling you to use the files inside directly without extraction, saves your time and disk space dramatically. WinMount is also an image tool, supports mounting ISO ISZ BIN MDS/MDF NRG IMG CCD CUE to virtual DVD-ROM, supports mounting FLAC, APE, WV, WAVE to virtual CD-ROM, supports mounting VHD, VDI, VMDK, WMT, Microsoft WIM, and folder as a HDD virtual disk. In addition, WinMount can create a new blank RAM-disk, size from 64M to 4G, data will be lost when restart.

  • Anonymous
    May 24, 2010
    Why not mount the .iso using standard Microsoft tools. Microsoft Virtual PC is available for download at www.microsoft.com/.../default.aspx and is approved for all OS versions. Mount the .iso as the CD/DVD Rom drive and copy to your local PC. It is very easy and best of all, free.