[BBLISA] mount ISO in windows - legally and free

[Edward Ned Harvey]

The two most commonly used windows ISO mounting tools out there, daemon
tools and virtual clonedrive, are not legal to use for free in a commercial
environment, etc.  They're restricted to a single computer with a single
person, for personal uses only.  Reports of spyware/adware etc are also
undesirable.

 

I just spent the effort to really extensively look around and evaluate the
whole scene.  And here's the conclusion:

 

Use this:  This one is actually free (GPL and BSD)

http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html#ImDisk

ImDisk

 

After running the installer, you need to set the drive to auto-load on vista
& win7.

open cmd prompt with admin privs

sc config imdisk start= auto

net start imdisk

 

After completed, you can find the utility under Control Panel

 

This is also legitimately free, opensource, but they retain no copyright
notice, so it's sketchy:

http://wincdemu.sysprogs.org/

WinCDEmu

 

Very useful information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_image_software

 

XP ISO Mounting Tool

doesn't work in Vista + 7

 

All are commercial "free" software (not actually free):

daemontools

alcohol-soft

magiciso

virtual clonedrive

poweriso

ultraiso

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