Mounting ISO images in a virtual CD drive

Published Wednesday, May 07, 2008 By Steven Stewart

I wanted to extract an ISO image without going to the hassle of burning it to DVD.  Found a couple of applications out there but either limited unless you wanted to buy the whole thing or buggy.
 
The application below is from microsoft but is unsupported; user interface is basic but straight forward to setup.  The end result is that you can assign a drive letter to an ISO image and treat the image as if it was in your CD drive.  Great and no hassle of burning CDs.
 
http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/b/6/7b6abd84-7841-4978-96f5-bd58df02efa2/winxpvirtualcdcontrolpanel_21.exe
 
Note for ref found this at http://weblogs.asp.net/pleloup/archive/2004/01/15/58918.aspx.