Feb. 21, 2007
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Windows Tip Sheet #137: ISO Virtual Drive
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WINDOWS TIP SHEET: ISO Virtual Drive
You have a nifty ISO image that you can use as a backup. So,
how
about mounting it into a "virtual CD player?"
By Jeffery Hicks
In an earlier column I discussed how you might create and
use
ISO images. But once you have an image, what next? Well, the
obvious
choice is to burn a copy to media, which is the right
solution for
long-term archiving and offsite storage. However, you have
an
additional option. The ISO image is a virtual CD (or DVD if
over
650MB or so), so why not "play" it in a virtual
CD/DVD player?
A virtual CD drive is a small piece of software that can
mount the
ISO just as if you had popped a CD into a physical CD-ROM
drive. You
don’t even have to spend a lot of money. For the longest
time I used
a free (but unsupported) virtual CDROM tool from Microsoft
called VCDControlTool http://tinyurl.com/tyxx .
Recently I’ve been
trying out another free tool, MagicDisk http://tinyurl.com/b3295
,
from the makers of MagicISO.
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Both tools work basically the same: You create a virtual
CD-ROM device
and assign it a drive letter, then mount an ISO. The file
can be local
or on a network share, although I’d recommend a local file
if you plan
on using it frequently or you’re concerned about network
utilization.
Once you mount the ISO image, you can use the drive like any
other
device. Both tools even let you make your ISO mountings
persistent so
that they survive reboots.
Imagine a situation where the finance department needs
read-only
access to the previous year’s financial data that was
previously
stored in a network shared folder. Burn the files and
folders to an
ISO image. Install a virtual CD-ROM. Copy the ISO image to
each finance
computer and mount it. Now every member has fast access to
the data
they need. Need another year? Add another drive. You don’t
have to
worry about accidental file modification, deletion or
viruses. And
there’s no need to back up the data -- it's already backed
up!
If you're using a virtual CD-ROM/ISO solution other than the
ones
mentioned here, I’d love to hear about it.
Comment: http://mcpmag.com/columns/article.asp?EditorialsID=1
650#post
Jeffery Hicks MCSE, MCSA, MCT is a senior network engineer
with Visory
Group. He's a contributing editor to ScriptingAnswers.com
and the
coauthor of "Advanced VBScript for Microsoft Windows
Administrators
(Microsoft Press, http://tinyurl.com/g63nf
). His new book,
"PowerShell TFM" will be published by SAPIEN
Press. Jeff also the
creator of several popular script-related tools used for
network and
Exchange administration. He maintains a blog at
http://jdhitsoluti
ons.blogspot.com .
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- Tech Line: Making Virtual Server Time Stand Still
Here's how to get control of a VM's virtual clock. By Chris
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- Security Watch: 16 Dirty Security Secrets
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- Improving Software Development: The Open and the Closed
The interesting question now is whether we can apply the
issue of
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