Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Mounting ISO as a CD drive

Was looking for a good driver to let me mount my ISO image as a CD. Did not want to waste a CD to burn the image and throw it away after the installation is complete. So did my usual google and got the usual answers.

There are a bunch of paid tools which work pretty cool but did not want to pay for something that I need to use only 2 times a year at best. The free one was an unsupported tool from MS called Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for Windows XP. But that did not work for me.

Then low down below comparatively hidded was an opensource tool called WinCDEMU. Downloaded it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/wincdemu/ and it worked like a breeze. The driver that comes with it is not a signed one but I have had no problems whatsoever. Thought should share this so that if there are enough links for this project it would show up higher on google.