Mounting CD images in Vista Beta 2

Cuchulain · 15 Aug 2006 at 19:04

Anyone have a clue as to how you mount a CD image in Vista Beta 2? I've tried every version of Daemon tools, Alcohol 120% some weird Microsoft thing and some other weird virtual CD thing from Slysoft but none of them work, I'm assuming it's down to the SCSI driver that is incompatible. Has anyone had any success? (and no, it's not for warez it's for a Creative driver CD image I need to install some stuff from)

doran1801 · 15 Aug 2006 at 19:13

i have had no luck either, you would be better off using winrar to unzip the iso then run the setup file

Cuchulain · 15 Aug 2006 at 19:19

doran1801 said:
i have had no luck either, you would be better off using winrar to unzip the iso then run the setup file

I never thought of that, cheers.

marc2003 · 15 Aug 2006 at 19:26

newest version of daemon tools works...

i've tried it myself and can 100% confirm that.

Cuchulain · 15 Aug 2006 at 21:02

marc2003 said:
newest version of daemon tools works...

i've tried it myself and can 100% confirm that.

Doesn't work under Vista Beta 2 (Build 5472), during the install you get a message telling you that the driver is incompatible with kernal mode debuggers and when you try and run it it tells you that the SPTDINST driver isn't installed, if you try and run the SPTDINST install seperately it won't install either.

Time to go back to XP I think.

marc2003 · 15 Aug 2006 at 21:17

ah well i was using the public beta, 5384 i think. i guess they broke it.

edit: you could try this really old version 3.11 - i had this working in vista too and it doesn't use the sptd driver thingy....

http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/download.php?mode=Download&id=21

Gandalf501 · 16 Aug 2006 at 20:15

I am running build 5472, previously used the Public Beta 2 release. The software that I used was from Slysoft.

http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html
http://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/Virtual-CD-DVD-Rom/Virtual-CloneDrive.shtml

Its free, and works with Vista Beta2. I have a lot of ISO's (Dont want to scratch the original discs installing...) Havent tried it with this build yet. I cant see why not though.

Hope this helps you.

Gandalf501 · 16 Aug 2006 at 20:19

btw daemon tools didnt work under the original beta2 release. It kept looping on me... Hey, windows protection for you.

Cuchulain · 16 Aug 2006 at 20:53

Gandalf501 said:
I am running build 5472, previously used the Public Beta 2 release. The software that I used was from Slysoft.

http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html
http://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/Virtual-CD-DVD-Rom/Virtual-CloneDrive.shtml

Its free, and works with Vista Beta2. I have a lot of ISO's (Dont want to scratch the original discs installing...) Havent tried it with this build yet. I cant see why not though.

Hope this helps you.

Fraid not, didn't work either, I've gone back to XP now. Probably won't try vista again until after it's proper release. Thanks anyway (everyone)