Access and use ISO images as normal drives using ISODisk

Posted by Sharninder on September 11, 2009, filed in: Useful Utilities, Windows

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ISODisk The ISO file format is the most format for sharing CD/DVD images on the Internet. A lot of software and most (all) Linux distributions are shared using this format. The advantages are that it’s a universal format and portable across operating systems. By portable, I mean that all operating systems have utilities to burn ISO images to media.

Have you ever had to burn a CD/DVD just because you wanted to check out a file that was distributed inside the ISO image ?

The problem with ISO files is that you have to actually burn the files to the disk to see the contents of the image. Sure, Linux purists can do a loop mount, but what about Windows users ?

ISODisk is the magic software that’s going to solve this problem once and for all.

ISODisk is a nice little utility that lets you “mount” ISO images to your Windows system and lets you access the contents using a regular drive. So, for example you could mount an Ubuntu ISO to drive e: and access it’s contents from there. Or, take the ISO of some software that you downloaded from the Internet, hook it up with a drive letter using ISODisk and install the software using that, instead of burning the image to a CD/DVD first.

Using ISODisk couldn’t have been made any simpler. Download and install it and after a quick reboot, ISODisk will be ready to start serving you.

ISODisk

The interface also couldn’t have been simpler. To mount an ISO disk, select the image file using the file select button and the image that you select will be mounted to the drive corresponding to the button you pressed.

Not, only does ISODisk mount ISO images, it can also create ISO images. So, for example, if you have a CD/DVD that you want to make a copy of, just put it in the drive and select the Create ISO Image from CD-ROM tab in ISODisk.

ISODisk