Hethu's Techno Babble

Friday, November 23, 2007

Mounting ISO disk images on a Virtual CD drive

There is no built-in way in Windows XP to mount CD images (ISO, UDF, etc.). But a little known tool from Microsoft does this for you and it's free.

It's not the greatest CD mounting tool and does not have a sleek looking UI, but does its job pretty well.

Windows XP Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel

It's an amazingly small download (59K) and is free from bloat. Download the Windows XP Virtual CD Control Panel from Microsoft. The Readme file tells you what you need to do.