Hello Again,

here is some how related useful information regarding ISO and mounting them etc

more and more laptops now come without floppy drive and CD/DVD drive

An old friend of mine who had bought a bridge game on a DVD was disappointed that he could not play it on his new 10” laptop without a DVD drive as after we installed it using a memory stick
,it kept asking to put the DVD in the DVD drive to do a CRC error check to find out if DVD was the
original and not a copy.

So I decided to research into it for a solution.
The solution is that one should make an ISO of the DVD, using UltraISO
http://www.ezbsystems.com
, or imgBurn in read Mode
http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download
or the Free Alex Feinman ISO recorder
http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm
once you have created the ISO image of the DVD then you need to mount it.
That is perform a trick of disgusing it as a DVD.
There is a tiny Free program from Microsoft !!! called:
WINXPvirtualCDcontrolPanel
That will do this
http://tinyurl.com/tyxx
it is a zip file expand it and read the text file how to set its driver up.

the above software free from Microsoft works OK but it is old and frankly a bit Amateurish (DIY)
here is a more professional software from Swiss people of same subject.

Virtual Clone Drive
http://www.slysoft.com/en/download.html


http://static.slysoft.com/SetupVirtualCloneDrive.exe

but unfortunatly when you mount the image it is read only and you can not add ay thing to it
not like imagex /mountrw the other Microsoft free utility.

Ben

Some other options . . .

If you have Roxio Easy Media Creator, then it may be used to create a virtual CD/DVD drive. Or, if you have VMware Workstation, you can configure a virtual machine with a CD/DVD drive.

I usually use Daemon Tools to mount the iso image as a virtual optical drive. Is the slysoft program any better? In what way?