Windows 7 and mounting ISO’s

Windows 7 does come with a ISO disk creater, this is fine if you wish to copy a ISO to a disk.  But in my case I have software on my hard disk which I find easier to run straight from my hard disk rather than a CD/DVD.  I expect this is the case for quiet a few people who doesn’t like to keep all of there CD’s out for the kids to attack.

I normally use Daemon Tools in XP and Vista, but I found that there are issues with it installing in Windows 7 and the installation getting stuck in a loop of wanting to restart the computer.  The Daemon Tools forum quite rightly says that windows 7 is beta so they are not planning on supporting it straight away.

Had a bit of a Google and found people talking about some different software, the simplest to install and use seems to be ISODisk.  Install ISODisk and everything worked great, except it doesn’t like drive b: to be mounted with an ISO.

Please don’t take this as the best way to mount a ISO, it’s just the way I found that works….If anyone has better software or a work around, I’m all ears…..

** Update ** 20/01/10

For a while now Daemon Tools has been able to work on Windows 7, I see people are still searching for how to mount ISO.  I would recommend Daemon Tools over most simply because it works and seems to work well.  ISODisk is fine but mounting drives is a bit fiddle compared to Daemon Tools.