What is a good virtual drive?

[Louis VI the Fat]

FWIW, I tried Virtual CloneDrive on an XP machine today, and I was pretty impressed. Next time I need a virtual drive, I'll be using it.

It works like a charm!

Unfortunately, I am still too stupid to operate it. Apparantly, you need to convert your discs into an .iso before you can mount them into Virtual CloneDrive.

Rather than start a new thread 'What is a good .iso converter?', does anybody know how to do this? A quick link to a site for dummies?


I don't know about this stuff. I write my mail with a quill, which I then have converted by my assistant into 'e-mails', or whatever it was she called them.

[Madoushi]

I've heard DiscJuggler is good, but I've never been able to get it to run, on any PC.
So I use Nero, when I have to. (I hate .isos so much)

[LeftEyeNine]

Dear Lwi,

Please get using Magic ISO Virtual CD/DVD Manager.

Truly yours,

LEN

[Beskar]

Unfortunately, I am still too stupid to operate it. Apparantly, you need to convert your discs into an .iso before you can mount them into Virtual CloneDrive.

I said that in the 2nd post.

[Louis VI the Fat]

I said that in the 2nd post.

I know. After one week, I managed the first part of your excruciatingly technical post. Then I struggled with the even more rocket-sciency second half, and cried for help.


One day I'll succeed!

You can get a virtual drive from Daemon tools (google search it), what you do is copy your cd's and dvd's onto your computer as an ISO and you load these onto your virtual drive.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Assuming you have a clone image of whatever contents on your CD disk, it should be possible to mount this file.

Something like this should work (requires administrator powers, so you'll have to run cmd.exe as administrator)

mount "c:\drives\my_clone" +

From what I understand that makes Windows attempt to figure out the filesystem type of "c:\drives\my_clone" and mount it under some mount point, so it can be accessed like any other type of storage medium (e.g. USB stick, harddisk partition, DVD, memory card).

[Xiahou]

Rather than start a new thread 'What is a good .iso converter?', does anybody know how to do this? A quick link to a site for dummies?

The lovely and talented ImgBurn should be able to make iso's from discs. It's also a great iso burning program.

[Louis VI the Fat]

I've succeeded!


I'm now officially a whiz kid, a mighty geek, a Jedi of the digital age!
Thank you all for the suggestions and input.



Oh - does anybody know what that right button on my mouse does?
j/k

[Tellos Athenaios]

It gives a nice clicking sound.