Mounting ISO Images with Vista

After installing Vista this weekend I started searching for a good tool for mounting ISO images. This is actually one of the few head-scratching moment I've had with Vista so far - why didn't they bake this in?

I tried several that either didn't install, didn't work, or were in some way flaky. Finally I found a post from Arian Kulp on Virtual CloneDrive from Elby.

Virtual CloneDrive is a free utility to mount ISO images on Windows (including Vista). One thing I really liked was that it associates itself with the ISO images so you can simply right-click on a .ISO file and mount it directly.

Posted: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 10:15 AM by MarcLaFleur with 18 comment(s)

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# re: Mounting ISO Images with Vista @Tuesday, November 21, 2006 10:58 AM

Daemon Tools is better.  The current release of Virtual CloneDrive will not install Visual Studio Team Suite from the iso in Vista.  Daemon Tools does have adware inside, but can be deselected during install.

Chyld Medford

# re: Mounting ISO Images with Vista @Wednesday, November 22, 2006 4:57 AM

As mentioned by Chyld, Daemon Tools is amongst the most popular means of mounting ISO under Windows... I can confirm that it works under Vista.

Guy Murphy

# re: Mounting ISO Images with Vista @Wednesday, November 22, 2006 7:55 AM

WinRAR will extract the contents of an ISO - just as if it was a zip archive.

Floyd Price

# re: Mounting ISO Images with Vista @Thursday, November 23, 2006 5:16 AM

Check my blog for step by step installation.

Though I have given it for Vista RC2 it is true with RTM also.

Bellie jayaprakash

# re: Mounting ISO Images with Vista @Wednesday, November 29, 2006 4:57 AM

Can confirm latest Daemon Tools also works on Vista x64, CloneDrive it would seem does not.

Daren

# re: Mounting ISO Images with Vista @Monday, December 11, 2006 5:08 AM

WinRAR wont correctly deal with UDF ISOs....

Me

# re: Mounting ISO Images with Vista @Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:25 AM

Daemon Tools does not associate itself with an ISO and thus is lacking a major feature that I need in Virtual CloneDrive.  My 5 year old uses disk images for her movies and games and runs them by just clicking links to the ISO files on her desktop.  This works great with Virtual CloneDrive, but not with Daemon Tools.

Payton Byrd

# re: Mounting ISO Images with Vista @Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:56 PM

Daemon Tools has a new 'feature' in that it connects back 'home' stealthly so I would need to classify this as SpyWare.

The RASGUY

# re: Mounting ISO Images with Vista @Saturday, June 02, 2007 7:45 PM

this product DOES NOT work in vista as all they hype claims

name

# re: Mounting ISO Images with Vista @Thursday, July 19, 2007 3:43 AM

Virtual clone drive crashes my system it work great when installed but when you restart nothing but blue screens, is this a common problem with vista?

Adam

# re: Mounting ISO Images with Vista @Tuesday, July 31, 2007 3:12 AM

Do not attempt to install VirtualCloneDrive on the final version of vista, as a few have already mentioned it WILL bluescreen and crash your system, had to use system disk to run a restore.

I also tried the lastest versions of MagicISO and daemon tools both also do not work on the final version of vista.

Still looking for a working tool to mount image files in vista...

Matt

# re: Mounting ISO Images with Vista @Monday, September 17, 2007 12:17 AM

I;ve installed Vista 32-bit Home Premiume. I've used VirtualCloneDrive on its for a couple of .ISO mounts. It hans't created any BSODs and its worked pretty well for me so far.

I've yet to try Daemon Tools, and won't do so until VirtualCloneDrive can't do something it should be able to do and I'm really deperate to mount the image.

I installed Alcohol on Vista and it just refused to mount anything. Its a pity because it is an excellent program on XP.

ndru

# re: Mounting ISO Images with Vista @Friday, November 09, 2007 8:08 AM

I just installed the latest version of Daemon Tools on Vista Ultimate 64 bit. When I mount an image it practically freezes everything and I can't shut down. Mouse pointer moves but can't click anything.

Anthony

# re: Mounting ISO Images with Vista @Wednesday, February 20, 2008 11:10 AM

Daemon Tools now requires ad programs to run alongside it. Not good. Daemon Tools does work excellent under Vista but the additional program that must run with causes issues with AV prgrams and is annoying.

Sean

# re: Mounting ISO Images with Vista @Friday, December 19, 2008 11:09 AM

VC by Elby does work in some cases but you're best to stay away from it esp if you're on Win Vista SP1 and using Maxtor Basics 1TB external drive per experience. It'll give you BSOD 77 Kernel_Stack_Inpage error at some point (randomly in my case) and possibly bad sectors along the way.  It took me quite some time to realize it too.  Nasty.

I guess with the buggy SP1, I think it safe to say that its best to avoid using image tools like this.  Extract it instead using tools like Isobuster.  Works for me.

@Sean

There's an ad-free version of Daemon Tools that I've run across.  I think its called Daemon Tools Lite if I'm not mistaken.

Mark

# re: Mounting ISO Images with Vista @Monday, June 08, 2009 6:40 PM

"This is actually one of the few head-scratching moment I've had with Vista so far - why didn't they bake this in?"

You'll have a lot of other head-scratching moments using Vista ;-)))

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# re: Mounting ISO Images with Vista @Monday, June 06, 2011 8:00 AM

Daemon Tools does not work on Windows Vista...on installation .. the windows (32 bit) crashes.... and a blue colored screen (BSOD) appears... for safe mounting..use win RAR ... but i am unsure about WINRAR dealing with UDF ISOs....

Sid

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