Rarely do I come across a utility that is absolutely ridiculously easy to use, is efficient and just plain works. ISODisk is one of them.
ISODisk is so easy you’d think there would be more to it. This app simply mounts ISO images as drive letters, and creates ISOs from CDs or DVDs. There are no options in the software; it doesn’t need them.
For any drive letter not in use, you click the folder icon next to the letter, pick your ISO (I’m using PC-BSD distribution for my example above), close the app and that’s it. Want to have a whole bunch of drive letters as different ISOs all at once? Go right ahead. Want to unmount a drive letter or two? Just run the app again and click the red X (also shown above) next to the currently assigned letter.
For creating an ISO, click the tab "Create ISO from CD-ROM", choose the physical drive letter you want, click the small disk icon and an ISO is created.
When you download this, don’t be surprised at the super-speed you get it. The installation file is nothing more than a tiny 527k single EXE.
The only, and I mean only, drawback to this software is that it doesn’t work in 64-bit Windows Vista or 7. But it does work for all Windows 32-bit editions, including 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7. Being that most people are still in 32-bit world, this isn’t a problem.
It doesn’t get any easier or faster than this when working with ISOs. I give this app two huge thumbs up.
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might have to give this a try. at the moment i’m using microsofts VCDControl tool. one query though, does it handle persistent mounts, or would I need to remount after each restart. website doesnt seem clear.