Comments on: WinCDEmu – Free Open Source CD/DVD Emulator

By: Tieum

Tieum — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:10:58 +0000

Nice program but wants to be evrywhere which is very annoying. No I do not want to open my 7z files with it.

By: Johnny Karp

Johnny Karp — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:22:12 +0000

Hello Nick! I’ve been using DTools too a few years ago, now I’m a bit put off by the fact that it has a “Pro” version with more features… WinCDEmu is open source and that’s a big plus in my book

By: Nick C

Nick C — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:11:08 +0000

I’ve been using Daemon Tools Lite for quite a while now and love it. It integrates into the shell (i right click, then ‘mount image with daemon tools’) instead of taking over the file association as I like the default action of an image to be ‘burn’.

It has done everything I’ve asked so I’m not likely to switch unless I remember next time I need to mount an image and don’t have Daemon Tools Lite installed…but I appreciate the heads-up.

This type of software is VERY handy when doing work on a netbook with no optical drive to share out from another computer and software installation from that type of thing is essential.

Thanks for the review, as always!

By: Johnny Karp

Johnny Karp — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:25:18 +0000

The installer isn’t broken, you have to click on “Continue anyway” when it asks for the test signing and then reboot and everything works. At least that’s what happened on my PC.

By: asfasfasf

asfasfasf — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:03:22 +0000

Horrible piece of software, the installer is broken, keeps asking to enable testsigning and reboot and won’t let the user actually install the software.

By: WinCDEmu – A free CD/DVD emulator @ Gratisprogram – hundratals tips!

WinCDEmu – A free CD/DVD emulator @ Gratisprogram – hundratals tips! — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:47:14 +0000

[...] http://www.freewaremission.com/2009/06/wincdemu-free-open-source-cddvd-emulator/ [...]

By: Rono

Rono — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:39:02 +0000

Gizmo Drive is yet another tool to mount CD and DVD images in Windows. It can mount ISO, BIN, CUE, MDS, MDF, NRG and VHD images which are essentially the most popular image formats. Images can be mounted using the shell in Windows Explorer, the command line or the graphical user interface.

Gizmo Drive can mount as many CD, ISO or Virtual Hard Drive images as there are free drive letters available. Each image can be remounted during Windows Startup or write protected so that the data does not get changed.

mount image

It is also possible to create new ISO images with some interesting features besides being able to mount existing images. Gizmo Drive can create virtual hard drive images, ISO images from disc and virtual hard drives that reside in RAM and act as a RAM drive. The virtual hard drives can be compressed and encrypted for additional security.

The drive mounting software has a surprisingly low resource usage when minimized in the Windows System Tray with less than four Megabytes of computer memory total. Make sure you only check the GDrive option during setup unless you want to install other programs as well.

By: Rono

Rono — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:33:12 +0000

Total Mounter, the latest addition in the virtual DVD drive category.

Total Mounter comes with support for many disk image formats including iso, bin, b5i, mdf, cdi, nrg, ccd, sub, img and raw. Even better is the fact that the program does not have to be running after mounting a disk image which will obviously reduce its memory footprint and resource usage. Up to eight drives can be emulated by the software program. Images can be mounted in the application’s interface. One interesting aspect of Total Mounter is the ability to create virtual CD-RW and DVD-RW drives that can be used to write date to a virtual CD or DVD drive.

virtual dvd drive

Another interesting feature provided by the software is the virtual disk creation option. This makes it possible to create and mount virtual disks from within the application. TotalMounter will install a new driver to the computer system during installation to offer the functionality.It also offers the following niche features that might be interesting to some users:

* Provides a iSCSI Initiator for mount iStorage Server and other iSCSI Target.
* Provides a INetDisk client for mount INetDisk Server.
* Provides a network-bridged method. It exports an existing partition, disk, CD/DVD-ROM to clients as a virtual iSCSI drive.

The program is easy to use and does support most image formats that are popular these days.