Sunday, January 11, 2009

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My Acer AspireOne netbook doesn't have a CD/DVD drive so I installed a DVD drive in an external hard disk drive USB enclosure.  This works great but many times, I don't burn ISO files to CD/DVD so I want to mount them so they appear like a physical drive.  You can buy some utilities to do that but there are a few available for free but will they work on Windows 7 Beta?

I first tried MagicDisc but it didn't worked at all.  I then tried Virtual Clone Drive but right after installing it, nothing happened.  I then rebooted and bingo!  This utility couldn't be simpler to use: just double click on a ISO file and it is mounted as a drive and ready to use. 

Nice sheep!

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So what about burning an ISO to a CD/DVD?  Couldn't be simpler, it's built in Windows 7!  Just right click on an ISO file, select Open With and Windows Disc Image Burner.  Nice!

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Sunday, January 11, 2009 8:55:08 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)  #     | 
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