Are you tired of software that won't run unless its disc is in your drive, for instance? Create an image, mount it to a virtual drive and put the real disc safely away: easy. PowerISO makes it just as easy to access virtual disk images for VMware (VMDK), Virtual PC (VHD) and VirtualBox (VDI) - simply open them, and browse their contents, edit individual documents, drag and drop files to or from the image and generally treat it just like any other drive.īut the program really comes into its own when you start creating your own images.
It'll appear in Explorer just like any other drive, you'll be able to browse the image, launch setup programs, without the need to burn it to a physical CD. And PowerISO is one of the best.Īt its simplest, you can use the program to mount the disk image as a virtual drive. It's time-consuming, inconvenient, and costs you money if you're not using a rewriteable a disc, but there are alternatives. To use these normally you'll have to burn them to CD or DVD first, then access the disc as usual. Download large applications and they'll often come in the form of disc images, typically ISO files.
