Comments on: Mount an ISO image in Windows 7 or Vista

By: thomas

thomas — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:40:40 +0000

Thank you for the article.It worked perfectly for mounting an iso image in win 7.

By: Thomas Korn

Thomas Korn — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:17:43 +0000

I downloaded the ISO of Pirates, and cannot seem to get the virutal clone to open and mount the ISO. Is there another program that can mount downloaded ISOs? or do I need the disk for any mounting program I use?

By: Daniel Kelly

Daniel Kelly — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:44:54 +0000

Nice article. I got tired of using Alcohol 120 in XP, even though it is a great program. This isn’t functionality anyone should have to pay for these days though… in linux you can copy a cd/dvd with “dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/Desktop/mycd.iso” and mount it with the mount command! I think the only way Windows can keep up in the future is to start adding a lot of value. In the past the OS has been so bare bones that you have to spend more money just to get the basics. Those days are over obviously now with the cloud, google’s free SAAS, and all the FOSS apps.

Whoever said Vista x64 is for advanced users does not know what he’s talking about. x64 is worth it if you have tons of ram, and your system is fast. Otherwise, x86 standard is perfectly fine – actually faster since there’s no layer of emulation.

By: Chriz

Chriz — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:19:24 +0000

yeah well im new to this mounting thing and i just downloaded a iso for a new game i wanted to play and i mounted it but it aint letting me open it help please?

By: dnelson

dnelson — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:26:15 +0000

+1 For windows 7, defaults to *.iso, works when the iso is on a shared drive.

This is exactly what Windows should have built in years ago.

By: Mihai

Mihai — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:10:58 +0000

Installed and didnt see any spyware.. worked great for my ISO thanks.

By: SSC73

SSC73 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:11:55 +0000

Macrium Reflect is a great utility for creating entire disk images for Vista and 7 x64. The compression can be set to your liking and the program has a self extracting tool so you can restore all or part of your system. Anyone tried this? I use it as a much faster back-up utility than any other freeware I have seen so far including magic disc/iso. Haven’t tried vcd, macrium works fine for me.

By: Freak

Freak — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:45:59 +0000

I’ve been searching for weeks for a “discussion” more or less like this.

See I got a new computer finally and it has Vista (64) Home. I had Alcohol and Daemon before. Obviously I use games that tend to be ISO files and what not. Well out of all those games about 5% will install now. I always have to go into safe mode to install get Daemon to or Alcohol to even work! And even then it usually never does. If I do get to setup the games always have the same error that blame windows installer. I upgraded to service pack 2 which cames with Windows Installer 4.5 and yet I still get these errors which shows theres something something far more sneaky going on!

Any ideas on what to use then? I read about MagicISO, VCD and Magic Disk. Will those actually work or do I have some lame anti-piracy crap on my computer now from one of these programs like Alcohol?

By: akash

akash — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:21:53 +0000

I used Daemon Tools on my laptop when I had Vista Business and as a result my abilities to put the laptop to hibernate and sleep went – resuming from hibernate gave a BSOD and resuming from sleep gave just a black screen. I knew DT caused these faults as I updated all drivers and BIOS in an attempt to fix it. I even emailed the MS tech support and gave them an nfo file of my system and they concluded that DT was the problem… anyway, long story short, reinstalled Vista for some reason (I forget why) and all other software minus DT and hibernate and sleep worked perfectly.

I have a friend who also had similar problems with hibernate and sleep – but not sure if this was due to DT as we had differnet (but similar) software and hardware.

Now I’ve got Windows 7 Professional RTM installed and CloneDrive (after reading this blog post) and it works perfectly.

Recommend CloneDrive 100%.

By: Slim0123

Slim0123 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:06:20 +0000

There is no way you can mount .mdf files with clone, and thus either you’ll need to convert all files to iso or you can switch to magic disc or alcohol…..
alcohol is good one but as it says, it installs a spyware, I would perform a sniffer test on it to know whether its true or not….
till now the only best piece is the alcohol, just waiting for 120% release for windows 7