Gizmo
Years ago I found a free program named Daemon Tools… it was a very simple, very functional application for mounting CD/DVD images (ISO, BIN, NRG, etc)… then it was “improved” and now it’s a POS (that would be short for Piece of Shit)…
I’ve tried several other programs, and none of them seemed to work all that well, until I stumbled on a product that not only mounted CD and DVD images, but also VHD (that would be Virtual Hard Disks, the container that Microsoft Virtual PC, Virtual Server, and Hyper-V use)…
The product is called Gizmo; and it has a lot of modules that do other things (you can turn them off if you won’t want them — some of them you might like); but I was floored by how easy it was to use, and how well it worked!.
Now, there is a “free” version and a “for-sale” version. I don’t really know the differences between them (you can read all about it for yourself). The free version does everything I want (and more)… and thus far I’m quite happy with it.
Also, one installer supports Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, 7 — 32 and 64 bit!
You can get more information from the vendor’s web site:
http://arainia.com/software/gizmo/
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