How To Mount A Cd Image

its not always about pirating
How To Mount A Cd Image

Ok people, for one its not always about trying to get free programs, certain games require that you have the cd in to even play, so if your playing that type of game for hours it can be hard on your cd rom, by ripping a copy of a pragram THAT YOU OWN, you can save the life span of your cd rom drive. 

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My personal favorite when it comes to mounting ISOs, NRGs, or most any other CD/DVD image file, is a free utility called MagicDisc, available at http://www.magicdisc.net/

It is a very small but efficient application. I'm not sure how other mounting utilities work, but this one works by installing itself as a virtual CD/DVD drive, on which you can mount almost any image format you can throw at it. It gives you the option to install more than one virtual drive (up to 6, I think) and mount them separately or simultaneously. It can start up with the operating system and it resides as an icon on the tray area of the task bar.

There are two things I particularly love about MagicDisc...

1) It works perfectly with MagicISO - my favorite, simplest burner and archiver, right after WinRAR - since it's actually produced by the same company with integration in mind, and...

2) It is extremely ubobtrusive, light on system resources (almost non-existent), and it works like magic... hence the name, I guess ;-)

I've never tried other virtual drive and/or mounting software, so I have no basis for comparison. But then again, I've never really had the need to try other utilities since MagicDisc simply does everything I need it to do.

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You use winrar if you want to unpack/read a single file.
You mount the .iso file as a virtual CD if you want to perform an installation. During the install process, usually, the install program looks for the CD drive letter (let's say d:) and then looks for files with names like d:/i386/drivers/something.dll)
That's why you really need to have the iso file mounted as a cd-rom drive.
This is also useful if you want to browse your iso file in order to view some files, this saves disk space because you don't have to unpack the whole iso in a temporary location, you read inside the iso file.

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What I don't understand, is why bother installing programs such as daemon tools or alcohol 120% to mount these .iso or .nrg files?

I just winrar to access the files. Much easier.

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daemon tools read only problem
How To Mount A Cd Image

when I use daemon tools, I mount the image to my file that I'm trying to, everything works fine, till I try to run it, it converts it into read-only format, says I don't have the access to change it back, and I cant do anything when I click run, it pops up a small dos window for a fraction of a second, then goes away, any ideas?

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