I'm having trouble with my normal go-to softwares. CloneCD won't read mdf/mds files, Daemon tools is having fits over compatability and Alcohol gets stuck in a loop during installation - retessing the computer at the required point boots the install up from the very start again, and won't complete. Anyone know how I can fix any of these, or suggest another program?
Mounting virtual drives in Win 7
- Thread starter Deadbeat
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Don
Daemon tools is utter tosh.
Use Virtual Clone Drive and never look back
Use Virtual Clone Drive and never look back
Associate
What others have said, Virtual Clone Drive works perfectly.
And its not full of usless crap you will never use
And its not full of usless crap you will never use
Associate
Likewise - using the latest version (4.35.5.0068), no problems whatsoever. Works flawlessly...
Don
They can't even make their own driver and they bundle spyware with their installer.
Associate
No problem with Daemon and win 7 here. Just make sure you select the option not to install the extra bits you didn't ask for.
Soldato
You can untick all the bloat.
But agreed, Daemon tools has gone down hill a lot since they started with the toolbar malarkeys.
Soldato
Not entirely true, you can't force it to not install the horrific SPTI driver that comes with it.
Try ripping a movie (dvd or bluray) to HD and see how slow it goes.
Then, once you have used the removal tool to kill off the crap driver and install VCD, rip the same movie and be amazed at the difference.
Don
Exactly
Everyone jumps in to defend Daemon Tools, but it really is shocking. It's up there with Quicktime and iTunes
Caporegime
I use PowerISO, seems to work fine.
Soldato
New version of Daemon Tools (Lite version that is) is out which finally has official Windows 7 support and I have no problems with it.
Virtual Clone Drive is the much better and simplier program to use, but just a shame it doesn't support certain file image formats, hence the reason I have to stick with Daemon. Again I don't have any problems with it so I'm just in the minority.
Virtual Clone Drive is the much better and simplier program to use, but just a shame it doesn't support certain file image formats, hence the reason I have to stick with Daemon. Again I don't have any problems with it so I'm just in the minority.
Caporegime
Soldato
Soldato
I've never used it in that respect so have never come across that problem. but handy to know
For what i use it for deamon has been flawless, bar the initial Win7 RC compatibility problems (In there defence it was working by the time Win7 was released). Not got a lot of good to say about DT's other than it just works and has a nicer/cleaner interface than VCD imo.
I've been floating along with Virtual Clonedrive for a while, but it just won't load certain .mds files. Whide Daemon Tools may be the inferior software, I've never run into an image I coundn't mount. If only I could get the ****ing thing to install without this stupid SPTD 1.60 error - the regedit fix did nothing, so I just don't know what to do.