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Thanks for that info, I was seriously nackerd w/o it. ALL my installs are ISO's...

Thanks for the info - never bother burning DVD's preferring to extract the Vista ISO's to a directory and install from there - this tip saved me having to go back to XP to do the extract!

RC1 download nearly complete....

Hmmm... I've tried Power ISO but it's not free :( I have Vista RC1 Build 5600

Awesome software.  Works great on my Vista RC1.

Fantastic! Thanks!

Sweet!  I wasn't able to use the MS Virtual CD Power Tool, this is exactly the solution I was looking for.

I tested it on build 5600 (RC1), and it only worked until the first reboot.

Doesnt work with x64

It only reads the contents of bin files. How do you actually 'mount' the images onto a virtual cd rom so that you can actually install stuff?

I tried installing Rise of nations - rise of legends and it says 'error reading setup initialization file'

It used to run fine in Win XP and I used Daemon there.

USing Vista rc1 5600 now.

I've just installed RC2 and had a few problems with MagicISO and MagicDisc. Out of frustration I went and checked the Daemon Tools site and there's a new release (4.0.6) which claims full support for Vista. I have installed it and it appears to work well on Vista RC2.

Did not work on released version for me.  After a reboot it said something to the effect of 'can't find driver..yadda yadda..'  Sorry I don't have the exact text, but just be aware.  Didn't crash vista or anything, just didn't work.

Beef

I'm running Daemon Tools with no problems in Vista RTM. Haven't bothered to try anything else because Daemon Tools does everything I need it to.

Beef - you need to run the installer as admin by right clicking and choose "Run as administrator" otherwise the magiciso driver doesn't get installed

I tried it under vista business and it works... awesome. Thanks.

I tried MagicISO under Vista Home Premuim and had no luck getting it running. So I used Alcohol 52% and it seems to work fine.

@ Ken: I'm running DaemonTolls also, for alst 3 Month. But Today since a restart Vista isn't running any more becouse of sptd.sys (daemonTools) Problem. Ask google and you will see a lot of people having problems with DT. Vista repair does not work, have to reinstall :-(

Deamon Tools for Vista has packaged adware and spyware etc in it. If you actually read the EULA you will see this.

Works a treat, shame that Nero 7's drive image doesn't install under Vista! Thanks for the tip.

I attempted to install alchol 120 on my vista 32bit business and not only did it not work it blue screened my system. Causing it to constantly re-boot.

Its taken me 3 hours to repair the damage it did because it requires a bios driver to be installed that does not co-operate at all with anything.

I hope these solutions work thanks for the advise.

I downloaded the MagicDisk file directly from the MAGICiso site and scanned at virusscan.jotti.org before unzipping- it's adware/ malware infected.

I certainly trust virsucscan.jotti- they've saved me several times.

I am having trouble with mounting images...i have tried the magicISO and its says compatibility issue, but i still can install afterwards when i run the program its says unable to load a file....cbc somthing like that....help me

Deamon tools for vista tried this a few times as well till i saw the tip for for driver fix above... What a nightmare daemon tool was caused my system to crash a couple of time did not want to uninstall correctly. In the end as it was a recent clean install rather than try and dig everthing belonging to daemon tools out of my system a re-install was quicker.

I thought everyone had given up on alchol damn who ever wrote the code for that software should be shot on site what a intrusive pile of crap never got it to work properly on 98, 2000 or XP never going to try it on vista. MagicDisc gets my backing everytime

THANK YOU! U SAVED MY DAY : D

awesome.  thanks!

Have tried MagicISO, only for Vista to throw it back saying errors, can't seem to get DT to run either! Anyone have a solution?

Wonderful! Just what I needed. Thnx!

I've been using MagicISO for years on XP.  Once I instralled it on Vista, I've had nothing but problems with my system hanging or forcing me to re-install MagicDisk.  It simply does not work.  I'm trying PowerISO now.