The ISO files are rare breed and they need to be mounted on CD’s or DVD’S to make any use, so it’s almost imperative for you to know how it’s done. There are quite a few softwares which you can use to do this but Virtual Clone Drive is perhaps the best out there. The fact that it’s a freeware makes it a completely irresistible utility to mount .CCD, .DVD, .IMG, .UDF, .BIN files and not just .ISO files.

There is a utility that can be used, called Virtual Clone Drive. This utility will let you mount .ISO, .CCD, .DVD, .IMG, .UDF and .BIN files. Download the utility and start the setup process. You will need to install the software from their website and then complete the installation with all the defaults.

The Virtual Clone Drive only takes 1 MB space on your hard disk so it should not bother a lot to those guys who keep their hard disks full with movies and games. You will be prompted to to restart the computer for the settings to take place. On restarting you will find an entry by the name of Virtual Clone Drive under Removable Disks in explorer. It has worked for me very well and

Virtual Clone Drive gives you the ability to mount up to 8 virtual drives at once.

Simply start the virtual drive under My Computer and select the image you would like to mount or just select by double clicking the image file itself.

Virtual Clone Drive also lets you to view a history of what was mounted before.

• Virtual CD-ROM (Microsoft) - This utility does not work in Windows Vista
• MagicDisk - This is a nice, free utility, but it isn’t very easy to install in Vista64.
• Alcohol 52% - Free version of Alcohol 120, but it bundles a browser toolbar that they claim isn’t spyware. It’s unacceptable.
• Daemon Tools - Well known tool, but the latest version installs spyware on your computer, and the old version doesn’t work in Vista.