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Well, I have been using Nero Image Drive for years, most recently Nero 8. Got around to needing it on my Win7 install and its not there. hmm... reinstalled it, its not even an option for Windows 7. Kicked up the install on my old XP box, sure enough it was there. Annoyed I hit up Nero's site, yeah they yanked it on anything other then XP and not an option for Nero 9.

Well highly annoyed at this point, I'm now looking for an alternative way to mount images in Windows 7. Don't mind paying for something that works over a freebee that only works now and then. Mainly want something that works in Win7.

Try Slysoft's Virtual CloneDrive. http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html

Been using it to mount Blu-Ray ISOs and works like a champ. Currently Freeware.

Illuminati wrote:Try Slysoft's Virtual CloneDrive. http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html

Been using it to mount Blu-Ray ISOs and works like a champ. Currently Freeware.

I've also been using this for as long as I can remember. Simple little program.
Just r-click on the .iso and click on mount.

thanks i was just looking for something like this.

Alcohol 120% is what I use. No more Nero products for me.

To burn CD and DVDs, I use CDBurnerXP.

I was thinking of getting Alcohol 120% but from what I have heard its having issues in Win7 as well on the image drives flaking out.

After dumping Nero 8 out of my system I'm getting COM surrogate errors now when I browse folders with video and images in them in the thumbnail view. So the chore of finding and fixing that starts in the morning.

I'm thinking I will try the Virtual CloneDrive for now, well that is after I fix the nero crap.

did VC work for you in windows 7 Bubba? are you running 32 or 64 bit?

smack323 wrote:did VC work for you in windows 7 Bubba? are you running 32 or 64 bit?

I'm curious how bubba likes it too, but I'm also running it with no problems on Win7 64-bit.

Did you try DAEMON Tools Lite? I've always just used that.

dgood wrote:Did you try DAEMON Tools Lite? I've always just used that.

I tried them once but at the time I tried it I could not mount a blu-ray ISO. Not sure if that has changed over the past 9-12 months.

smack323 wrote:did VC work for you in windows 7 Bubba? are you running 32 or 64 bit?

Yeah it worked for the one I needed, haven't messed with it since.

Still working on the com error though. Nero jacked up my Axis camera software. Now I have to try and fix that with out loosing data. Its my project for the weekend.

Until then I just don't view folders with vid files in thumbnail view.

Illuminati wrote:

dgood wrote:Did you try DAEMON Tools Lite? I've always just used that.

I tried them once but at the time I tried it I could not mount a blu-ray ISO. Not sure if that has changed over the past 9-12 months.

I believe it can mount blu-ray images now. When I don't have an image mounted it shows up as a blu-ray player. I don't have any blu-ray images right now so I can't test it for ya

XstollieX wrote:

Illuminati wrote:

dgood wrote:Did you try DAEMON Tools Lite? I've always just used that.

I tried them once but at the time I tried it I could not mount a blu-ray ISO. Not sure if that has changed over the past 9-12 months.

I believe it can mount blu-ray images now. When I don't have an image mounted it shows up as a blu-ray player. I don't have any blu-ray images right now so I can't test it for ya

Cool... either way, I'm happy with Virtual CloneDrive for now. Simple enough!

Illuminati wrote:Try Slysoft's Virtual CloneDrive. http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html

Been using it to mount Blu-Ray ISOs and works like a champ. Currently Freeware.

I used the snot out of this for the last week or so. Mounting 2-3 ISO's at a time and changing out several times in a day. Never had a hiccup.

Not to shabby for a program with a 1.5mb installer. Light weight, does what its supposed to and does it well.

bubba wrote:

smack323 wrote:did VC work for you in windows 7 Bubba? are you running 32 or 64 bit?

Yeah it worked for the one I needed, haven't messed with it since.

Still working on the com error though. Nero jacked up my Axis camera software. Now I have to try and fix that with out loosing data. Its my project for the weekend.

Until then I just don't view folders with vid files in thumbnail view.

Bubba,

Off topic but i noticed the mention of Nero jacking up the Axis software. I have a couple of Axis cams and and was getting ready to put a new system up at home, was it cam station manager that got messed up? I dont want to put Nero on if its going to mess up the cam settings, they took some time to get done.

thanks,

Think it was more to do with Axis, and Win7, just happen to notice it as Nero was jacking up other stuff. Was getting it all set up at the same time. Camera Station and Nero8 lived happily together on XP.

The Axis codec is not meant for Windows 7, it works, but if you open a folder that has .MOV files and it indexs the folder you will get errors, you have to keep clicking through them until if finishes scanning the folder. This happens EVERY time you come back to the folder.

This issue still remains even after removing the software. To see if it was Axis/Win7 butting heads I made a test machine with the software on it, same issue.

Everything works, but soon as you browse a folder with .MOV files it errors. Same for a fresh install with out the Camera Station and just looking at the camera Live View via web browser. Soon as the codec is loaded, its jacked up.

Nero9 still has a SH*T ton of issues in win7, a lot of features error out and help files are all jacked up. Only part of Nero I can get to work with out error is Nero Express. Which sucks to have paid $60 for express

This was all tested on Win7 32bit, haven't even tried to set it up on 64bit.

As for the Axis, set it up in XP or Server 2003. I have my Axis Camera Station on a Win 2003 Server with two 207W and two 2tb drives (one each cam) I can keep up to 20days of 24/7 vid.

I just remote into the server to see the Camera Station software.

Cool, thanks for the info, i have a copy of 2003 at home on an older server, time to dig it up i think. 20 days of 7/24? that must eat up some GB's

hair over a TB each camera

they have a storage calculator
http://www.axis.com/products/video/desi ... ulator.htm

XstollieX wrote:

Illuminati wrote:

dgood wrote:Did you try DAEMON Tools Lite? I've always just used that.

I tried them once but at the time I tried it I could not mount a blu-ray ISO. Not sure if that has changed over the past 9-12 months.

I believe it can mount blu-ray images now. When I don't have an image mounted it shows up as a blu-ray player. I don't have any blu-ray images right now so I can't test it for ya

So would this play Blu-ray if i had blu-ray ISO?

smack323 wrote:So would this play Blu-ray if i had blu-ray ISO?

Sounds like Daemon Tools should... I know Virtual Clone Drive will. Both would still require blu-ray playback software like Power DVD or Total Media Theater as this software will just mount the blu-ray ISO so it looks like you have a blu-ray rom.