Vista - Virtual CD

The Virtual CDROM driver that M$ had on it's download site won't work with Vista. Besides having to buy and use Alchol (the program - not the drink), ISOBuster, etc - does anyone know of any free tools to treat and ISO as a drive?

"Joe" <hortoristic@gmail.dot.com> wrote in message
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The Virtual CDROM driver that M$ had on it's download site won't work with
Vista. Besides having to buy and use Alchol (the program - not the drink),
ISOBuster, etc - does anyone know of any free tools to treat and ISO as a
drive?

__________________________________________________

The MS VirtualCD for XP works fine in Vista.

ss.

Joe wrote:
> The Virtual CDROM driver that M$ had on it's download site won't work
> with Vista. Besides having to buy and use Alchol (the program - not the
> drink), ISOBuster, etc - does anyone know of any free tools to treat and
> ISO as a drive?

daemon tools (http://www.daemon-tools.cc) supposedly has a version that
will work with vista, including x64... but i haven't tried it yet.

Joe wrote:
> The Virtual CDROM driver that M$ had on it's download site won't work
> with Vista. Besides having to buy and use Alchol (the program - not the
> drink), ISOBuster, etc - does anyone know of any free tools to treat and
> ISO as a drive?

There is a free version of Alchohol that works with Vista. The free
edition, called Alcohol 52% can be downloaded at
http://www.free-downloads.net/progra...__Free_Edition.
--
Tom Porterfield

To be honest Synapse, it never worked for me either. Even in XP i always
found it a pain. in the end, with XP, i had to resort to deamon tools.
Whether deamon works with Vista though, i couldn't say, not having tried it.
I always burn the ISO's to DVD.

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"Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@NOSPAMgomez404.elitemail.org> wrote in message
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> "Joe" <hortoristic@gmail.dot.com> wrote in message
> news:ECE707D8-B652-49C6-991C-97B0B7136907@microsoft.com...
> The Virtual CDROM driver that M$ had on it's download site won't work with
> Vista. Besides having to buy and use Alchol (the program - not the
> drink), ISOBuster, etc - does anyone know of any free tools to treat and
> ISO as a drive?
>
> __________________________________________________
>
> The MS VirtualCD for XP works fine in Vista.
>
> ss.

Joe,
Try Daemon Tools, http://www.daemon-tools.cc. BTW I don't think Alcohol
supports Vista yet.
//SaM

Joe wrote:
> The Virtual CDROM driver that M$ had on it's download site won't work
> with Vista. Besides having to buy and use Alchol (the program - not the
> drink), ISOBuster, etc - does anyone know of any free tools to treat and
> ISO as a drive?

Someone pointed me to FREE Alcohol 52% and it works awesome! And it's free!
Mount's the ISO as a drive

"YoSeMitE_SaM" <not.available@this.org> wrote in message
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> Joe,
> Try Daemon Tools, http://www.daemon-tools.cc. BTW I don't think Alcohol
> supports Vista yet.
> //SaM
>
> Joe wrote:
>> The Virtual CDROM driver that M$ had on it's download site won't work
>> with Vista. Besides having to buy and use Alchol (the program - not the
>> drink), ISOBuster, etc - does anyone know of any free tools to treat and
>> ISO as a drive?

YoSeMitE_SaM wrote:
> Joe,
> Try Daemon Tools, http://www.daemon-tools.cc. BTW I don't think Alcohol
> supports Vista yet.

I use Alcohol 52% in Vista at home, it works fine. Support for Vista RTM
was added with the release on 2006-11-20.
--
Tom Porterfield

"John Barnett MVP" <freelanceit@mvps.org.NOSPAM> wrote in message
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> To be honest Synapse, it never worked for me either. Even in XP i always
> found it a pain. in the end, with XP, i had to resort to deamon tools.
> Whether deamon works with Vista though, i couldn't say, not having tried
> it. I always burn the ISO's to DVD.
>

I've just tried it again, and it does work fine. I had never used it before
I started using Vista, and find it will do until Nero ImageDrive gets sorted
out.

ss.

I have Nero but never used the ImageDrive thing - does it add a drive letter
to your avail drives too or what makes it good?

"Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@NOSPAMgomez404.elitemail.org> wrote in message
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> "John Barnett MVP" <freelanceit@mvps.org.NOSPAM> wrote in message
> news:uyPU4bCNHHA.1240@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> To be honest Synapse, it never worked for me either. Even in XP i always
>> found it a pain. in the end, with XP, i had to resort to deamon tools.
>> Whether deamon works with Vista though, i couldn't say, not having tried
>> it. I always burn the ISO's to DVD.
>>
>
> I've just tried it again, and it does work fine. I had never used it
> before I started using Vista, and find it will do until Nero ImageDrive
> gets sorted out.
>
> ss.