Mount ISO files as a Virtual CD / DVD drive
Many a times when you download software you will get it as a ISO or a CD image file formats which are just a image of the actual CD drive. An ISO file needs to be burned on a CD or DVD so that you can use or install the software.
For those who do not have a CD / DVD burner this may cause a lot of problems as those files will be rendered as useless.
If you are one of those who do not have a CD / DVD burner or do not want to burn the image on a CD / DVD but still want to make those use the files inside the image you can do that with the help of MagicDisc.
MagicDisc Virual CD/DVD-ROM is a freeware that allows you to mount ISO files as a virtual CD or DVD drive.
You can mount up to 15 virtual CD / DVD drives using MagicDisc. In addition to this you can also create a image file (ISO) from a existing CD or DVD. Usage is pretty simple. Once you have installed the software. It will show up as a tray icon like shown below.
Right clicking on the icon will load a new menu using which you can mount or unmount and image files as a virtual CD / DVD drive. Selecting the virtual drive will show you options to mount or unmount the drive.
Clicking on mount will open a file dialog from where you can choose the image file and mount it as a virtual drive and will appear in your Windows Explorer. You can then install the software or copy the files using the mounted drive. Once you have finished use of the mounted drive you can simply click on the Unmount option to unmount the drive.
This is a very useful software as it supports many different types of image files along with supporting the default ISO files
- BIN (CDRWin)
- IMA/IMG (Generic disk images)
- CIF (Easy CD Creator)
- NRG (Nero – Burning ROM)
- IMG/CCD (CloneCD)
- MDF/MDS (Fantom CD)
- VCD (Farstone Virtual Drive)
- VaporCD (Noum Vapor CDROM)
- P01/MD1/XA (Gear)
- VC4/000 (Virtual CD)
- VDI (Virtuo CD Manager)
- C2D (WinOnCD)
- BWI/BWT (BlinkWrite)
- CDI (DiscJuggler)
- TAO/DAO (Duplicator)
- PDI (Instant Copy)
MagicDisc will work on Windows 9x / Me / 2000 / XP / 2003 and Vista based PC for 32 bit version and Windows XP / 2003 and Vista 64 bit editions.
Let me know if you found this software useful. Your comments are always welcome.
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sorry if this question sounds stupid but i am new to iso file… my question is, after i downloaded the iso files (psx roms) then can i play the game directly using the emu or i need to burn it to disk first?? pls help ! im new to this….. many thx!
This might be a little late. But with this program there is no need for DVDs. You can do it with a DVD or Dual Layer DVD (depending on what you are doing). This program is simple just follow the instructions above.
is there any way i can create more than 15 virtual drives??
Worked wonders! Thanks alot!
useful to me
One of the easiest software I've ever used. Installed easily, mounted ISOs easily, it's totally install and use within 5 minutes.
Good work. :)
Really impressed with this… have been using ISO buster to extract images before and this is such a time saver. Will be telling others about this when they need it. Cheers
Thanks for your guidance. Easy and helpful!!
This totally does the job for me! Thanks for supporting this topic.
Nice and simple.
Gonna switch to this and check once.
Thank you very much. I have downloaded countless amount of iso image games but deleted them because i had no idea how to use them. You have helped me understand.
Shakil, Age 13
England
Great Software. I used it for an ISO file i downloaded of a game. Had to use this program because i was out of Dual Layer DVDs and this program was exactly what i needed. Very easy to use. Also available on cnet downloads.
Hello i downloaded this software on my linux it stated thatMagicDisc Virtual CD/DVD-ROM. does not recognise mcdbus please reinstall MagicDisc Virtual CD/DVD-ROM. ive done this severall times and it doesnt work any ideas?
Thanks (I owe you one). Did what I needed it to do in no time.
Awesome, worked wonderful!
Anyone got this working on Windows 7 64 bit? Installs fine just won’t open for me?
Doh! Ignore last comment, its 12.05am in the UK its been a long day.
To anyone with the same “brain freeze” right click the MagicDisk icon in the Taskbar to use it.
this works on windows 7 thank you :)
this is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thanks a lot
Thank you sooo much!! This helped a tremendous amount!
Thank you very much for superb useful information
Got to be the best and easiest to use
Thanks WtF
I haven’t used it yet, I’m about to, but the install was sweet and I see the virtual \device\cdrom4 drive. It even mapped it to a open drive letter – sweet. Glad I had one available. :) For me, I just couldn’t find a darn blank CD to burn an Microsoft ISO image and I didn’t want to run to Walmart. :) Anyway, I appreciate finding this site!
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helllo i need a pure walk trow for i tried to muont a iso file and i got fail to mount cd image
Thank you. appreciated