DAEMON Tools Lite - free version popular emulation program optical discs CD, DVD, Blu-ray.

V modern world CDs are rapidly losing their relevance, as all information is distributed over the Internet. Therefore, many users resort to using virtual disk images to store important files, music, movies, software and video games. It is much more convenient and safer because optical discs are very sensitive to physical damage, and mechanical drives have low write and read speeds.

The DAEMON Tools Lite emulator allows you to use several virtual "turntables" at once and works with all known image formats: MDF, MDX, MDS, ISO, IMG, CCD, NRG, CUE, BIN and others. Using the program, you can create and play electronic copies of any discs (audio, video, game, boot disks and usb-flash drives), own images from files and folders, copies of SD cards, RAM disks inside random access memory, emulate hard disks (VHD, HC, TC, VDI, VMDK) and work with ISCSI targets (remote virtual disk images). The program also implements the functions of burning, copying on the fly and cleaning rewritable optical discs.

In addition, the application can create password-protected images of disks and flash drives, encrypted virtual disks-containers TrueCrypt and VeraCrypt. Another interesting feature of DAEMON Tools Lite is that the emulator works with copy-protected files (Protect CD, SafeDisc, StarForce, Securom, etc.), which will certainly delight many music, movie and video game lovers. Other useful application tools include a built-in image editor that allows you to change the contents of disks, and a converter for converting images to other formats.

Despite such a serious functionality, the interface and key features of the program can be learned in just a few minutes. The main functions of the application (mounting and creating images, opening TrueCrypt and VeraCrypt files) are integrated into the Windows Explorer menu and are available through the application icon in the system tray.

This is a very common format. In the form of ISO files, which are a CD image or DVD disc, games or other programs are usually downloaded. Fortunately, Windows 10 has built-in tools for working with such objects. Let's take a closer look at what tools you can use to easily open a file with this extension or mount a separate virtual disk.

As already mentioned, any Microsoft version Windows 10 (be it Insider Preview or any other) is able to open ISO files on its own.

In this case, the OS also forms a virtual drive, which can be removed by pressing right click and selecting the "Extract" item.

The choice of a third-party ISO opener directly depends on its content: if any game or application is provided in this form, then the right decision will not open the file itself, but mount the image. Make sure the file is on an NTFS volume before starting the procedure.

In other words, the ISO will open in a specialized program that will create a separate virtual disk. Through such a drive, it will already be possible to install a utility or game. Let's figure out with what programs you can do this.

Daemon tools lite

It is the most widespread and popular tool for mounting ISO images. You can download the utility from the official website, because in Lite versions it is absolutely free. The provided functionality will be more than enough.

This utility is installed in the same way as any other. Need to open EXE file and follow the instructions. There is only one "BUT" - in the window that opens Windows security it is necessary to activate the item "Always trust Disk Soft Ltd software". To install, all that remains is to click on the corresponding button.

Before finally launching the program, be sure to check for a check mark in the "ISO" item, so that the ISO format is automatically opened through this utility.

The further sequence of actions for opening ISO using DTL is as follows:

1. Find the downloaded ISO and launch it using the standard method. Due to the fact that it was associated with the program we are describing, the file will be read in it.

1. We activate the item "Always use this application to open.iso" and click "OK".

1. Click "Open" in the Microsoft security warning window.

1. If the procedure was successful, a new disk will appear at the bottom of the program window.

1. We open "This computer" and in the explorer we see in the list hard drives a new drive with the program that was downloaded as ISO.

1. The disk is available for opening and use. At double click it will start automatic installation content. Right-clicking on the disk and selecting "Open" will expand the contents for further use.

To unmount the drive, you need to open the application, select the appropriate drive, right-click on it and click on the "Unmount" button.

As a result, the disk will be removed from the explorer.

Let's move on to the next tool with similar functionality.

UltraISO

UltraISO is the simplest ISO tool that does not take up a lot of disk space, but provides a huge number of possibilities. Only one of them interests us.

1. The program window will open, in which the entire contents of the selected file will be displayed.

1. To get the necessary files at your disposal, select them, right-click, click on "Extract to ..." and specify the extraction path.

1. The files are extracted to the correct folder and are ready to use. No additional drives were installed.

As you can see, the work in this utility does not take much time. Let's move on to the next tool.

Alcohol 120%

Alcohol is a powerful disc burning utility. In addition, it allows you to connect a large number of virtual drives. Its functionality is really impressive, but in our case we will only work with a smaller part of it.

1. Find the required ISO.

1. Right-click on the added image in the application and click on "Mount to device".

1. If everything went well, the image data will be displayed in the status of the virtual media.

1. We go to "This computer" and check the presence of a virtual disk. If successful, open it and use the required data.

To get rid of the image, go to the utility, right-click on the virtual drive and select the "Unmount image" line. The image will be unmounted, and the virtual drive will be ejected and removed from the list of mounted hard drives.

Let's move on to considering the last tool in this category.

Nero

Nero is a whole package of utilities containing everything necessary tools for working with multimedia. Projects in the program itself have the NRG extension. Unfortunately, the package no longer includes the utility that supports ISO - Nero Image Drive, however previous decisions should be more than enough to solve emerging problems.

All described emulators are provided in Russian, so that the user will not have any questions about how to translate the interface.

Opening by archivers

Any ISO can be opened not only with the help of specialized applications that mount images, or the tools of the OS itself, but also using modern archivers. This method it is recommended to use it only if only data is needed from the ISO, and there is no need to create a disk image.

Let's consider two of the most common archivers and the process of working with ISO using them.

WinRAR

WinRAR is the most widely used archiver today. The program is extremely easy to use and has the most intuitive interface.

Consider an alternative archiver, no less common among PC users.

7-zip

7-zip - absolutely free archiver, which is in no way inferior to the previously described WinRAR. We download the utility from the official website and install it on a computer or laptop.

Pay attention to which OS version is installed - x32 Bit or x64 Bit. Based on this information, you need to download and run suitable version 7-zip.

To expand ISO via 7-zip:

1. We make a right click on the file, move the cursor over "7-zip" and in the expanded add-on, click on "Unpack".

1. Select the extraction path and click OK. The files will be unpacked to the folder specified by the user, you do not need to do anything else.
1. Select the existing files and click on the "Extract" button. We indicate a suitable path and click on "OK".

That, in fact, is all. We ended up looking at how to open an ISO file on Windows 10 with just a few clicks.

conclusions

The choice of a specific solution depends on the situation. If a game or program requires a disc, then you should use one of the emulators and create a special virtual media. If you just need to access the files stored in the ISO, you can do without programs and use any available archiver.

Video instruction

Attach detailed instructions in video format, in which the process of working with each of the tools described above is described step by step.

A disk image is a virtual file - a copy containing all information from any physical medium... You cannot do without a program for mounting disk images if your computer has content presented in the format of a virtual clone of a CD / DVD disk. Below we will consider five ways, as in Windows system mount a disk image so that its contents are available in a virtual drive.

How to make a disk image using standard Windows tools

First, let's look at the standard functionality of mounting CD / DVD images in Windows 8.1.

Time of creation Windows versions 8, from which the standard functionality for working with disk images migrated to all successor versions - Windows 8.1 and 10 - accounted for the massive phenomenon of refusal of manufacturers of computer devices to complete their drives. CD / DVDs were out of date, and the lack of a drive made the final cost of individual notebook models and PC assemblies cheaper. Microsoft, in fact, had nothing else to do, how to implement the standard ability to connect disk images, at least only in the popular ISO format, so as not to take bread from third-party software developers at all. So, if in the version of Windows 7, mounting disk images is possible only through third-party software, then users can view the contents of the disk itself in ISO format using the system.

So how do you mount an ISO disk image in Windows 8.x and Windows 10? In Explorer, select the ISO file, open the context menu and select the "Connect" command.

That's it - the image is mounted and visible in the virtual drive. You can start viewing its contents in System Explorer.

Disk imaging software

Mounting images in Deamon Tools

Deamon Tools is the market leader software to create a disk image. The first version of Deamon Tools appeared in 2000, and, despite the fact that its counterparts were released on the software market earlier, it immediately quickly gained popularity due to its friendly user interface and the free Lite edition, which was more than enough for non-professional home use. Daemon Tools works with almost all disk image formats. The program's operation is invisible even for low-power devices, since it uses a minimum of system resources. The free Lite version contains limitations - in particular, this is the ability to simultaneously mount only 4 virtual drives. Whereas in paid Pro version Advanced, 32 drives can be mounted on the computer.

Relatively recently, Daemon Tools has radically changed, and the classic interface has been replaced by dullness and wretchedness, but with an extremely understandable description of functions and a clear internal organization sections. The functionality of the program has been replenished, but not everything is available in the Lite version. Naked demonstration of individual functions without the possibility of using them is a marketing ploy to entice users to purchase the paid version.

Daemon Tools Lite 10 is available for free download on the developer's website.

An important point during installation - select an option free license.

Among the innovations of the Daemon Tools version is the option to scan the computer for the detection of disk images and display them in the internal library. Well, let's take this opportunity.

After scanning, all possible virtual CD / DVD and hard disks will be visible in the program window. Please select required type, open the context menu and execute the "Mount" command.

As before, disk images can be added to the Daemon Tools interface one by one using the quick mount button.

To unmount a virtual drive, call the context menu on its connection icon at the bottom of the program window and select the appropriate command.

How to mount an image in UltraISO

UltraISO is a mega-software designed for professional use. Among its features are such as: creating images of CD / DVD-disks, burning them to disc and editing without unpacking, optimizing the structure in order to save space, converting from one format to another, etc. This program is also a reliable and proven tool for creating bootable USB drives.

UltraISO is a paid software product. The free trial version is of little use if it comes full use of most of the opportunities. So, the trial version has limitations, due to which it will not be possible to create or burn an ISO file, the weight of which is more than 300 MB. In our case, when we are talking purely about mounting a disk image to a virtual drive, this limitation does not apply. Therefore, you can safely download the trial version with the Russian-language interface from the UltraISO developer's site.

After launching UltraISO, you will see a small window telling us about the limitations of the trial version and encouraging us to buy the paid version. We press the button " Trial period».

In the program window, open the "File" menu and press the "Open" button.

Add the image file.

We open the "Tools" menu and select "Mount to virtual drive" among the commands present.

A small window will appear where you need to select the mount button. The button next to it - "Unmount" - must be used, respectively, to extract the CD / DVD image from virtual drive.

How to burn an image to disk in Alcohol 52%

Alcohol 52% Free Edition- This is a free stripped-down version of the well-known program for emulating CD / DVD Alcohol 120%. Unlike the latter, paid Alcohol 52% allows you to edit simultaneously limited quantity virtual drives - up to 6 pieces. In the free version of Alcohol 52% Free Edition, this number is completely reduced to a minimum - only 2 parallel virtual drives. Also, the free version does not provide for burning discs to discs.

A free trial version of the utility can be downloaded from the developer's official website.

At the time of this writing, it was not possible to download the installer of the program with the browser downloader, but the problem was successfully solved using the Download Master download manager.

Tricks of developers who want to buy from them paid versions software products, there are no boundaries. In the case of the trial version of Alcohol 52%, we will not just look at the demo window with an offer to buy full version programs, but you will even have to wait a few seconds until the button for launching the program "Ok" becomes active.

In the Alcohol 52% window, open the File menu and select Open.

Add the required file to the program window, open the context menu on it and select the "Mount to device" command.

To extract an image from a virtual drive, open the context menu again and select the "Unmount ..." command, respectively.

The fastest way to mount and unmount a virtual drive

The above discussed ways of working with virtual drives inside programs. But there is also a more convenient, more quick way mount and unmount the virtual drive. If during installation Daemon Tools Lite is registered with the program that opens ISO files by default, you can mount the drive by opening the image as regular file by double-clicking the mouse from the system explorer. In case of with UltraISO the disk image will be instantly added to the program window for further actions. But Alcohol 52% will simply open, as with a normal launch, however, it is also convenient.

If the program was not assigned by default during installation, you can do it manually at any time. To assign a program that opens a particular type of ISO file by default, find any of them in Windows Explorer and select Properties from the context menu.

Click the change application button.

If the desired program not in the list, select "Advanced", go down to the end of the list and click the search option for another application.

Specify the program launch file in the installation folder.

Apply changes.

Now, in the system explorer, the CD / DVD image file will be displayed as the program's icon by default and will open in this program when it starts.

The easiest way to unmount the virtual drive is in the system explorer. Among the teams context menu called on the mounted drive, there is a function to eject the disc.

The virtual drive will then disappear.

Have a great day!

Some programs, and especially games, are quite often distributed in the form of an ISO image. This format distribution has its advantages, but for end users it is not always the best. The problem often arises with mounting the image on the system.
V operating system Windows 8 and 10 have built-in support for mounting ISO images. There it is done literally in two clicks: you need to right-click on the image file and select the "Connect" item in the menu that appears.

But what about those who work, for example, in Windows 7 or even Windows XP? There is a solution!
I present to your attention the WinCDEmu Portable program. This small, free and portable utility does an excellent job with little or no impact on the system. This compares favorably with such "monsters" as DAEMON Tools Lite, Alcohol 52%.
It is also important that the program also supports other formats. With the same ease with which the program mounts ISO, it can mount images in formats: CUE, NRG, MDS / MDF, CCD, IMG. In this regard, the utility can be useful in Windows 10, where there is no standard support for these formats.

A little about the interface and features of working with the program.

After starting, a window will be displayed with the following text (free translation): WinCDEmu Portable will install the driver required to create virtual CD / DVD drives. You can uninstall the driver at any time using this program. Do you want to continue?
After confirmation, a very ascetic window will appear, in which there is nothing superfluous :-)
Adding images to the list is carried out both by clicking the "Mount another image" button, and by dragging the image file onto the program window.
For the occasional need to mount an image, WinCDEmu is the best choice.

Hello dear readers! In this article, we'll talk about how open ISO file image in Windows 7, 10 and 8. Quite often, such an ordinary question confuses many users. Although in fact, everything is very simple.

First of all, it must be said that a file with this extension is an exact copy of a CD. For example, it can be a clone of a computer game or program.

Quite often, such a scheme is used to launch computer games... After all, many remember that it happens when the game needs not only to be installed on Windows, but also requires the presence of original disc for start.

But as they say, let's talk about everything in order. First, we'll just open the ISO image. And fortunately, in Win 10 and 8, this can be done even without third-party software. Just select the desired file in the explorer:

And it is automatically mounted in the newly created virtual drive, which can be seen if you go to "My Computer" on the desktop:

Now you can also work with files from the ISO image: copy them, move them, and so on. To get this opportunity in Windows XP and 7, you need to open such a file through any archiver.

Even built into file manager Total Commander:

But we must remember that in this way we simply open the image without mounting it. And in order for, for example, your favorite game to start, you must definitely mount it. And the free version of the program will help us with this. Daemon tools lite.

And at the end of the installation, be sure to remove all the jackdaws in front of the additional products that the developers are trying to impose on us:

Launch the application to open and mount ISO images:

At the first step, click the "Skip prompts" button:

After that, it will appear in the main window of the program, click on its image with the right mouse button and select "Mount":

At the bottom of the window, you can look at the letter of the virtual drive into which the mounting took place:

As you can understand, Daemon Tools Lite can create a separate drive for each image, with which you can work as with a real one and, accordingly, open an ISO. That's it, my good friends.

And this is where our story ends. Until then, and see you again. In conclusion, watch an interesting video about real people with superpowers.