Note: As some readers correctly said, while a fantastic tool by itself, ISO Recorder by Alex Feinman will allow you to burn any ISO file to CD, and NOT mount it by its own. Hopefully it will be soon released in its final version (if you happen to know it already did please send me a note by using the Feedback page) With an advent of Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2003 the version 2 of ISO Recorder has been released, which introduced some new features including ISO image creation and support for non-admin user.Ĭurrently in V3 RC1 phase (as of June 2007), ISO Recorder supports Windows Vista. ISO Recorder has filled this need and has been one of the popular Windows downloads ever since. Even though the new OS had CD-burning support (by Roxio), it did not have an ability to record an image. ISO Recorder has been conceived during Windows XP beta program, when Microsoft for the first time started distributing new OS builds as ISO images. Listed in no particular order: ISO Recorder by Alex FeinmanĪ longtime favorite of mine, I’ve been using it since Windows XP came out. I decided to make a list of the tools that do work, and the only condition was that they were totally free and had no hidden costs or other issues. With Vista, many of these tools were not compatible anymore and some even caused blue screens (BSODs) on Vista. Prior to Windows Vista there were a lot of tools that allowed mounting of.
ISO file as a file somewhere on your hard disk or network, and then just access it like it was a real CD or DVD drive.
By using a mounting software you can keep the. ISO (or other image file format) that you want to use, you can either burn it to a physical CD or DVD media (thus “wasting” a few cents and valuable rack space in your CD shelf, or mount it by using some sort of emulating software. ISO file, easily allowing users to burn an exact copy of the original onto CD or DVD. ISO files are typically created through an application that will open, create, edit, and extract CD or DVD image files, then convert the extracted image to an. Such files are often used when transferring CD and DVD images over the Internet (for example, most MSDN downloads that are available from the MSDN subscriber downloads page, AND the files that are delivered monthly with the MSDN subscription package – are in. ISO file is a file that contains the complete image of a disc, either a CD or a DVD.