What are Reddit's favorite ISO Mounting Apps?
Macrium Reflect
WinCDEmu
MagicISO
ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver
PowerISO
ImDisk Toolkit
Virtual CloneDrive
Rescuezilla
OSFMount
Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel
Disk Utility
WinArchiver
Gizmo Drive
AcetoneISO
Top Reddit reviews mentioning ISO Mounting Apps:
use WinCDemu
open source
free of course
totally transparent - no services or background apps
simple to use - double click to mount, eject to unmount
You made the same mistake as OP, you downloaded the demo when there's a perfectly fine freeware available right here.
It doesn't clone drives, but Macrium Reflect does and it's also free.
Or just clone/image your drive from time to time. Tools like Macrium Reflect are 1. free 2. easy to use 3. save you from colossal fuckups
EDIT: https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree free for home use, no I am not affiliated with them in any way, just like the product
And if you don't have Windows 8, here's an old, but quality piece of software from Microsoft that lets you do pretty much the same thing. It's small and gets the job done. Works on Windows 7 and previous!
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38780
Edit: and it's portable!
I've found WinCDemu to be hands down the best and most easiest. Its even open source.
Work uses virtual clone drive and it sometimes doesn't work. WinCDemu always works
Features: > One-click mounting of ISO, CUE, NRG, MDS/MDF, CCD, IMG images. > Supports unlimited amount of virtual drives. > Runs on 32-bit and 64-bit Windows versions from XP to Windows 7. > Allows creating ISO images through a context menu in Explorer. > Small installer size - less than 1MB! > Does not require rebooting after installation. > A special portable version is available.
Macrium Reflect Free is a great one. I use it personally for drive cloning/backups, and the organization I work for also uses it for backups, system imaging, etc.
Macrium Reflect - free. I was a long time Acronis user and liked the product but Macrium seems to be just as good if not better and its definitely cheaper as its FREE.
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Macrium Reflect have free home and business options:
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That'd be a one machine at a time, manually deal. You can set schedules although this is probably more useful for ad-hoc type imaging.
Installing Ubuntu replaced the Windows bootloader with GRUB.
Easiest solution is to use Macrium Reflect Free on another computer (or yours if Windows is working) to create the rescue media on a flash drive. Delete the Linux partition, and then boot from the flash drive and select the option to repair the Windows MBR. This will get rid of GRUB, restore the Windows boolloader, and (most likely) solve your problem.
I've used ImDisk extensively after I got tired of all the fluff in daemon and alcohol, Then windows 10 happened but it's still handy for older systems and can be run purely with context menus no UI window etc. Can do ramdisks also so it can still be handy on Win10...
> I would like to take a ghost copy of the disk stock before I start with the aim of reverting back if I screw it up.
A factory restore function is most likely available.
> another ghost copy of the final config to revert back should I need to.
If the ghost days are the last time you've touched imaging, a lot has changed and IMO for the better.
Cheers.
PS: Clonezilla is a great option too. Try both.
Honestly, I prefer MagicDisc. It's tiny and fast. I used to use Daemon Tools, but once it started getting packaged with a bunch of adware I dropped them.
After extracting each RAR file, just use a program like the open source WinCDEmu to mount each disk in order.
If you need any help with this feel free to message me.
Also a quick side note: Technically you ARE supposed to own a copy of SWG to be able to play on SWGEmu's servers so go out and buy a copy if you can! Be warned if you post in this thread with the same name as you use to login to SWGEmu or their forums, you might run the risk of having your account banned. Those guys are ultra snoops sometimes.
That being said there is no way for them to detect if you have used these CD's or not so tread lightly and have fun.
Check out WinCDEmu.
Basically after you install it, you just double-click the ISO file and it mounts it. Then when you're done, you just Eject the ISO (ie go to My Computer, right-click on the virtual drive and choose Eject). Simple, fast, and efficient, haven't used anything else since I found this.
Edit: also supports CUE, NRG, MDS/MDF, CCD, IMG formats, and best of all, it's free and open source.
Wouldn't it be easier to install the other OS in a virtual machine? If that's for whatever reason not possible, download Macrium Reflect [1], do a full system image, store that image on an external drive, create a bootable Windows PE USB stick with Macrium. Once you want to go back to the old OS, boot from that USB stick and use the system image to restore your system drive.
Definitely - if there's any mission-critical information on that drive, you should use a program like Macrium Reflect to back it up at the block level, then perform any necessary repairs.
First, you gotta have excess RAM. I have 64 GB. Second, get some software to make the RAM drive. I used this, made a 17 GB RAM drive. Next, make a directory on the RAM drive called "MSFScache" or something like that, then launch MSFS, go to the data settings in MSFS, and set the rolling cache to the directory you just created. I used a 16GB size for my rolling cache.
I really recommend Imdisk Toolkit. It's free, open source, regularly updated, and supports mounting hard drive and floppy disk images, in addition to CD and DVD images. It also supports creating a RAM disk, if you'd find that useful. It can both provide a virtual view of an image stored on disk and read/write data as necessary, or it can copy the entire image to main memory and provide a virtual view of that (which, in some situations, would be significantly more performant than streaming from the hard drive).
OR ImDisk, which is 'free' but politely asks for a donation....
It's hella fast.
Oh and the RamDrive supports TRIM.. So I can assume it's memory usage is not fixed, but only equals actual used space.
You could clone it, but I'd be careful. I worked for a pharmacy and do IT work. You really don't want to fuck around with pirating stuff for actual businesses in general. Two of my clients had their licenses audited by Microsoft in the past 5 years and its a giant hassle. Very likely any pirated pharmacy/EMR etc software is going to be at least somewhat out-of-date. You don't wanna be where the buck stops if they get busted.
Plus pharmacies literally print money. They can afford it. If they are having problems paying for the software, which costs a fraction of what a pharmacist does, then they are doing something very very wrong as a business.
Anyway, if you are going to go for it anyway I suggest setting up a remote server with instanced logins using the same seat. Depending on the software their database system may not work with it though.
A final thought: My pharmacy literally killed people through negligence and bad practices (not dispensing drugs, but with their automated drug dispensing system that got setup for people incapable of using it), you really don't want to fuck around with pirating something in a situation where someone could die or HIPAA violations could occur. Tell them to fuck off and pay their bills or get into another crooked business.
Anyway, if you decide to go with cloning I like Macrium Reflect. https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree
You can use a software utility like Partition Wizard Best Free Partition Manager for Windows | MiniTool Partition Wizard Free
I would recommend that you use something called Macrium Reflect Free to create a backup of your hard drive. Macrium Software | Macrium Reflect Free make sure to create a bootable rescue USB stick, this way if anything goes bad you can at least return to where you are.
I have used Partition Wizard in the past to do exactly what you want to do w/o issue but it is ALWAYS best to backup before making any changes.
Good luck.
Macrium Reflect <em>Free</em> worked well for me on 3 different PCs I upgraded a week or so ago.
I had Samsung SSD's and and tried Samsung's sata migration/cloning software but it messed up something on the recovery partition and resulted in an invalid Windows 10 installation, i.e. "could not be activated".
Don't just back up your data - image your whole HDD to your external drive as well with Macrium Reflect Free. You didn't post the specs, but it sounds like an old machine. You probably won't have any issues, but if you do, it will be driver issues, most likely. If 10 fails to work right on it, it'll be good to have a system image to revert to.
How to make a virtual sd card with this leak:
- Download this tool
- Mount your 3.6 sd card by right clicking on it and selecting imdisk, check "removable media", rest of settings is fine
- Replace codeset in "codes" folder with the one on this link, replace pf folder with the one in this post
- Right click on the mounted sd card and unmount it.
Enjoy!
I'd recommend Virtual CloneDrive. https://www.elby.ch/en/products/vcd.html (it's free)
I've switched from damon tools a while back to one called WinCDEmu, but it had issues with dismounting the disk until I restarted the computer. I switched to virtual clone drive because it's similar to damon tools in some of it's functionality (where there's an systray icon and you rightclick to mount/dismount), but you can also double-click the iso files to mount them.
You'll need 2 things: A program that will make an ISO disc image from the disc itself, and a program that will let windows use that ISO as an emulated Optical Drive.
For the creating the ISO, I use InfraRecorder (The "Read Disc" command will generate the disc image)
For mounting the ISO as a virtual drive, I use WinCDEmu. After it's installed, just right-click on an ISO and choose "Select Drive Letter and Mount"
There are literally dozens of programs for either task. I like these two in particular because they're free, open source, and lightweight.
HTH.
Not joking -- try an external USB dock and Macrium Reflect it's gotten me past disk clones that won't succeed in clonezilla. If neither work, then yeah you're most likely going to have to ignore the bad sectors.
I don't know what's different about plugging a SATA drive into a USB dock compared to an internal SATA port, but for some reason my success rate cloning otherwise dead drives is around 75% by using one. Same with using recovery software on a USB docked drive that simply isn't seen when plugged into an internal SATA port.
You can use software like ImDisk to create a virtual disk from your RAM space.
Then you can assign it a letter and then place it into your plex server's "transcode location" settings.
You should also test your ramdisk to ensure the speeds are as expected.
This will spare the longevity of your SSD / HDD from having to constantly write and attempt to keep up with demands.
This is how I would do it:
1) Download Poweriso, http://www.poweriso.com/download.htm 2) After you've downloaded it (AND INSTALLED! (Perhaps even rebooted is required, if so, do it.) ), go to the folder, right click AIO.iso 3) Select Poweriso (Should be there) > set the number of units (Rought translation) > Select 1 units (If it's not already set.) 4) Right click again > Poweriso > Mount (name).iso 5) Go to your computer file (Where you can see C:, D: etc) 6) You should see a CD-unit icon besides your DVD unit (If you have one) 7) Double click on it (The AIO.iso) 8) Should now start setup.exe, Install etc.
Or:
7) Right click on the AIO.iso, > Open (The .ISO should now open) 8) Find Setup.exe, or whatever you could use inside of it.
(There is no part where you actually need to open the actual Poweriso program, Just right click > mount and stuff)
Instruction nr. 7 & 8 is not clear, because I didn't personally DL it so I can't make a complete list of how to install it, Sorry, However after this you should get the basic install window to open, and you should be able to make the rest out.
Remember, this is with Poweriso which I personally use, and tend to work, There is aswell Daemon tools and Alcohol 120% which I havn't tried out myself.
Be advised, Alcohol 120% will crash Windows Vista if you're planning on installing it. (I learned this the hard way when I had Vista. /:) (They might have patched this tho)
(Formatting will probably fail, Sorry i'm new to Reddit formatting.)
Also, notice that the description of the torrent says it requires no crack / keygen etc, So you're lucky. If you would need a crack you would replace the game launch file (like sims.exe), You can get more information relating this by googling!
get this to mount, is free opensource.win10- its mdf not iso but yeah heres mediafire link for anyone who needs http://www.mediafire.com/file/y76y81ky2rbokaj/JPOG.rar/file
I use WinCDEmu for mounting and creating iso files, it's free, FOSS and you just right click the iso to mount and eject the fake drive it to unmount. That's all I need, If that's what you need then check it out.
Looks like Daemon Tools has some additional features, if they sound useful then sure. Haven't tried it myself in a good long while. That adware stuff makes me want to avoid that company all together personally.
WinCDEmu is the easiest way to mount ISOs in windows. Just double click the iso and it does the rest. It does a good job at being light and seamless, thats why I like it.
I've tried both, and some others, and I am glad to announce that WinCDEmu is the best I've used.
It's lightweight and automatic; you double-click an iso to mount (it can choose a drive letter automatically), and right click the drive and click "eject" to unmount.
I highly suggest you give it a whirl. It works with Win7, too!
I usually use Macrium Reflect ... but I'll give EaseUS a try next time I have to do a migration, I've used a bunch of their other freeware and most of it is great
You can usually migrate windows across providing you have space on your new drive for it. There a dedicated partition for Windows on your drive, you should be able to copy that across to a new drive.
I would create a backup of all your files as well as a Windows recovery drive on a usb flash drive, just so you're prepared for the worse case scenarios, data loss/corruption etc.
Handy instructions on Microsoft about window 10 recovery with links to other windows versions Here.
Software I use to copy partitions.
P.S Forgive formatting, on mobile
Note, you will need to have the same amount of space (or the amount of data that is on the HDD space free) on the SSD.
Cloning the drive will wipe any data off the drive your cloning to.
https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree
Use Macrium Reflect. It's the easiest free program to clone your operating system drive onto an SSD.
Make sure to clone the main drive and the System Reserved partition when cloning.
Then google 'How to enable Trim' this is important, because sometimes it's not enabled when you clone from a HDD to SSD, but for me I think Macrium Reflect enabled it on the SSD.
I had issues cloning so had to go a little longer route and backup my main drive and System reserved and then restore it to the SSD I bought.
Once you have cloned, make sure to test the SSD will load by disconnecting your HDD, then startup and see if it boots into windows. If it does, you can then connect the HDD again, go into the Bios/UEFI and change the SSD to the first boot drive, then load into windows and do what you want with the HDD, format it or keep it as a backup.
Is the M.2 SSD larger than the SATA SSD? If yes you can use a program called macrium reflect to clone the SATA SSD to the M.2 SSD.
When you are on the step for partitions make sure to resize the windows partition to fill up the rest of the M.2 SSD.
If you aren't doing image backups on a regular basis, get something like https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree and use one of the drives to hold the image backups.
Since SSDs have a limited number of write cycles, offload temp file folders and browser cache folders like this:
> If you have a folder, say, C:\MyStuff, and want to move it and all of its contents including subfolder to D:\MyStuff, follow these steps:
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>Copy all of C:\MyStuff to D:\MyStuff
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>Temporarily rename C:\MyStuff as C:\MyStuff.old
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>In a command window: mklink /D C:\MyStuff D:\MyStuff
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>In a file explorer navigate to C:\MyStuff to be certain it looks OK.
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>In a command window: notepad C:\MyStuff\TestJunk.txt
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>Type some junk text into the notepad window and save it.
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>In a file explorer, check that D:\MyStuff\TestJunk.txt exists. If it does, then you have done everything correctly.
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>When you are satisfied that the C:\MyStuff symbolic link is working OK and D:\MyStuff is correctly populated, then you can delete C:\MyStuff.old
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>If files are locked and so prohibit step 1 or step 2, then you need to do the work in the Safe Mode or a recovery environment.
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>You can do that for browser caches, which are highly active if you surf a lot.
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>You do not need to change anything else, like shortcuts, if you do it this way.
Works great. I've used Macrium Reflect twice in the past few months and it even clones from a larger drive to a smaller SSD provided there's less data being cloned to the new drive than the new drive can hold.
I’ve used cloning software like macrium reflect for migrating on laptops before with little issues. Cloning should be a fairly painless process and Windows should still be activated. Just make sure to backup all your data in case anything goes wrong.
Use this. It's free. Also there is linux boot cd called clonezilla but it's not as easy as reflect free.
https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree
How to
https://knowledgebase.macrium.com/display/KNOW7/Cloning+a+disk
Are you going to have go around to put the SSD in anyway? I would use this
https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree
You can make a usb drive, and boot the machine and then clone the drive while you are there. Its going to be very quick disk to disk.
Windows 10 has 2 user backup solutions and 1 extra system backup solution: https://www.howtogeek.com/220986/how-to-use-all-of-windows-10%E2%80%99s-backup-and-recovery-tools/
User backup solutions: System Imaging (Full image of all system volumes) and File History (versioned automatic file backups)
System backup solutions: System imaging and System Resource Protection aka System Restore Points (often defaults to OFF), as well as automatic backups version of system files
All these technologies use VSS (Volume Shadow Copy) which should be able to copy most locked files.
Windows Images and System Restore Points can both be recovered even if the system stops booting as long as the data is accessible, via the built-in Windows Recovery environment.
If you want a third-party solution you can use something like Macrium Reflect Free, though it will require making your own bootable WinPE environment: https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree
Now if you're using Windows 7 as you mentioned, then that supports the System Imaging and System Restore Points but doesn't support File History; instead it supports incremental imaging via the built-in Windows backup options (basically in the same place). It also supports VSS as well. For file versioning I'd use a client like Dropbox or OneDrive. Windows 7 also supports a "System State" imaging backup type which includes a backup of the registry, but usually System Restore Points are better for this.
I totally sympathize and I ran into the same problem a while back. I was a long time user of Daemon Tools. :(
I switched over to OSFMount. It is not precisely like Daemon Tools but it isn't bloated, has no ads and works with more filetypes. Highly recommended.
Install a program like MagicDisc. After that, you can mount the image, and your computer will read it just as it would a retail or burned disc.
It's free, and I've been using it for years flawlessly.
any reason you are installing XP? It is way past the EOL and has tons of security issues at this point.
I have never tried to make a XP bootable USB, but google turns up a lot of results.
http://www.poweriso.com/tutorials/how-to-make-winxp-bootable-usb-drive.htm
Looks like most of them is from another windows PC, so I hoe you have access to one
You can use ImDisk to make said Ram Drive,
http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/#ImDisk
I used to do this in wow back in the day with an 8GB ram drive. I moved all the main MPQ files onto the ram drive, and I used Mklink in Command Prompt to create hard links to the mpq's in the wow folder.
That way wow saw them as being in the wow folder, but were actually on the ram drive.
The result was my in city fps tripled, and my instance load times nearly disappeared (barely able to see the progress bar).
The paid versions are more simplified, but there is a tool called ImDisk that does pretty much the same job.
There are some imdisk tutorials but they all seem outdated so here's a quick rundown:
Be sure to have enough memory installed (24gb or more) otherwise your pc will kill you.
After installing it, go to your control panel, open it.
Create a new mount at Size of virtual disk fill set it to Gigabytes and the size (16).
At Device type set it to Harddisk volume.
At the right side click "Create virtual disk in virtual memory"
Then hit OK
http://i.imgur.com/P9cwOIp.jpg
Windows should prompt you now to format it, do that.
If that doesn't work, ImDisk has a format button.
Then the disk is available to install things on like a normal harddrive.
Once you're done installing planetside (again, the standalone is preferred vs steam) AND made sure your in-game settings are saved, Save the image and name it appropriately. Use the standard setting.
Every time you reboot the disk will be loaded out of memory as it's ran in windows so you have to load your image:
So when you want to play planetside, you start ImDisk, click the ...-button and click the file.
Set Create virtual disk in physical memory and hit OK, it'll take a bit longer to load than before as it's actually checking the files but once loaded, you're ready to go again.
A hassle? Maybe, but once set up it's almost as long as launching razer gamebooster.
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By default, Windows Explorer can mount only standard ISO & VHD(X) images. If you need to work with other image formats, then WinCDEmu or Virtual CloneDrive are pretty good choices.
You can't. There is no native support for .bin files in Windows 8. There are completely free third party software around though like WinCDEmu Which I can personally recommend.
If you are in a situation where you simply can't install a third part tool at all then you're simply out of luck I'm afraid.
It's built in in Windows 8 and for Windows 7 I use WinCDEmu. It's great because you don't even know it's there, just double click the iso file and it's mounted no questions asked. Oh, and it's free.
Its similar, but a restore point would be on the computer. Say if the hard drive crashes, you would lose all that. If you make a system image and save it on an external drive, you can just replace the hard drive and restore. Also say if you get a nasty virus, it might affect the restore points. There is more pros and cons out there.
This is one of the best and free software to make a system image: https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree
Macrium Reflect is good and free, at least for personal use.
I've used a lot of different disk-cloning software over the years, but ever since I discovered Reflect 7-8 years ago, I haven't had to bother with trying anything else.
https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree
https://www.easeus.com/backup-utility/free-disk-cloning-software.html
There's a ton that work for free. I forget which I just used to clone by SATA SSD to my WD Black nvme m.2 then cloned that to an old mechanical hard drive as a back up. Even put another backup on my network drive.
Now I think I'm going to return the WD Black for this.
Dear user,
Please make sure you do a image backup of your Windows installation/disk. That way you can always revert back if things go south. Just make sure you create a USB stick with the appropriate software so you can do a bare-metal restore anytime you want.
Personal preferences for free imaging softwares are:
Best of luck!
Macrium Reflect Free has never failed me. Makes an initial image (not a clone, although it has that option as well) of all the data on your HDD, then you can do differential backups regularly to keep it up to date.
There are a ton of utilities to do this. I used Macrium Reflect Free: https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree
You use a USB thumb drive to install Macrium Reflect on.
Then you hook up the SSD and your old HD at the same time.
Boot off of the UBS thumb drive, this boots into Macriums OS
You pick your old HD as the source and your SSD as the target.
Then you clone it. I picked the slowest "safe" option. Left it running while i was at work.
I had a TON of files so it took ~5 hours to clone.
When its done you shut down your computer and disconnect your old HD.
Then you boot your computer off your SSD and done.
I went from ~1 minute boot times to Windows login to 5 seconds.
When you say you have an OEM copy of windows 7 does that mean you have the OEM CD or just a key?
If you have the OEM CD do this below:
Make an iso of your CD http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-create-iso-image-file.htm
Use this to make a bootable usb windows 7 installation drive with ISO above http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool
it was blank already when you formatted ? if so, why don't you throw it away if you have a whole spindle of them ? not such a big loss compared to when blanks were 10-15$ each (looooong time ago hehe)
Thing is, ReWritable dvds do not work like hard drives.
What is happening now, is known as multi-session. (more info here and here ).
you might be able to save it by using a proper dvd writing tool instead of the windows ones. (Nero, or the one that came with your dvd writer)
Good luck !
Please, people, stop using DaemonTools and use MagicISO instead. The crappy ads it's filled with and the headaches it can produce (XP FUBAR'd on SP2->SP3 upgrade) are not worth it.
Upvote for pushing an alternative to Daemontools, which has been a bloated piece of crap in the last 5 years or so...
I myself have been using MagicDisc for quite some time.
ImDisk is free, open-source, and available for Windows.
I've also played around a little with the ram disk software that MSI provides with their motherboards, and it seemed to work pretty well.
ImDisk is GPL licensed and appears at least to have recent builds on their site, updated as recently as yesterday. That said, he says some of his tools were written years ago, but his screenshot shows it running on Windows 8, so must be somewhat updated. His source is available for download on his website with GPL license intact.
RAM makes part of your RAM act as a hard disk. Since RAM is faster than any hard disk, this improves performance for the files on the disk. However, loading screens are about the only time a game will fetch a significant amount of data from disk at a time. A RAM disk might quicken loading screens, but will almost certainly do nothing more.
What you'd want to do is use ImDisk to create a RAMDisk and put your Skyrim install into that.
The skyrim install is ~5.5 gB, which would put your RAM down to 2.5gB. Skyrim uses 2gB RAM. 512mB is not a lot of headroom for background processes. If you start having background processes being paged to disk you're in a worse state than you started in.
As it stands, I suggest you look at this, which might allow skyrim to put the ram you have to better use. (Though, I kind of doubt it offers much benefit)
Well, it's an either/or situation with CUDA, usually.
I don't think you're able to use your processor in tandem with the GPU and it may be that the GPU isn't as good as your processor for this task.
If you think your hard drive is a bottleneck, creating a RAM drive is easy — and you have plenty of ram to do it.
VirtualCloneDrive from Elaborate Bytes...
https://www.elby.ch/en/products/vcd.html
... or if you use Windows 8.x/10 the ISO mounting feature is built-in.
Depends what it's extracting, if it's a scene release then yeah otherwise it's either the uncompressed game or an installer which will be just as straightforward.
BTW Daemon is pretty dodgy, I suggest using WinCDEmu (it's FOSS) instead: http://wincdemu.sysprogs.org/
If you are running Windows 10 you can mount the iso without any tools, just right click it and select mount as drive
If not i would recommend http://wincdemu.sysprogs.org/ over Daemon Tools, way smaller and without adware
Which version of Windows are you using? Both Windows 8 and 10 can mount .iso images without requiring any additional software. Alternatively or for other formats, use WinCDEmu:
As others have said, you don't need to worry about which version you have if you use the Morrowind Code Patch.
But if you still want to do it this way, WinCDEmu is a pretty great virtual drive emulator.
This looks pretty good just on the notion that coming up in a Chocolatey search is a good sign. I verified further and found it's licensed LGPL, which is about as free and open as anything ever, next to BSD, Apache and MIT licenses. You can verify the same and find the source on their download page.
winCDEmu is 100% free software and does the same stuff. Or if you have windows 8 just double click the ISO file and windows will mount it without any extra software.
Daemon tools is pretty much obsolete these days, I'm not sure why people would still be using it, let alone pay for it.
Blurgh. I stopped using Daemon Tools after they started bundling a bunch of adware with the free edition. Not to mention the recent addition of spyware that collects data on what you're mounting. This isn't made up; it's a documented, visible "feature" within the program.
Try the free and open-source WinCDEmu.
Same functionality minus emulation (useful back in the day for pirates who copied protected disks, not so much now). Double-click on an image file and it mounts.
> (close your eyes if you're squeamish lol)
I cannot express how much we really don't care. This isn't /r/pcmasterrace - we don't really care what specs you're using.
> (yesyes boom boom)
Again, we don't care. If it works, it works.
> Stuff
All of this can be solved by simply replacing your SSD with a larger SSD. Get Macrium Reflect. Get the new SSD, unplug your HDD, plug-in the new SSD, follow this video to clone your old SSD into the new one and re-size the partition, remove the old SSD and plug-in the new one in the place of the old one, re-connect HDD, all set.
You won't have to activate windows, and you'll have more SSD space.
No that is doubtful, however, GSOD is likely a driver issue or a corrupt file during the upgrade procedure. Windows can cause hardware to freak out to where a complete power off and on is needed. We dealt with an NVMe bug that caused a GSOD and when the PC restarted the NVMe drive wasn't seen (no even in UEFI) until the PC was powered off and back on via the power switch on the power supply.
When I decide to update I use a software called Macrium Reflect Free to make an image of my current boot drive. This allows me to easily go back to it if things go awry. I had used the rollback and Windows own system image tool but both had failed me. Macrium has not. Be sure to learn how it works before you NEED it.
Then I open a powershell as admin and run these two commands
sfc /scannow
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
Just to check for any issues with corrupt or missing Windows system files.
There are times when a driver or chipset update is required to run the latest insider build, of course this depends on your PCs internals and they will usually state this in the blog post regarding the update, it is a good idea to check that first as it will state what you need to do beforehand (if anything), what is fixed, and what they know if a problem in the build.
As these are dev (pre-beta) and beta versions you may have to start over (unless you have an image of your system to restore) at any time.
Good luck and have fun with them, I've been an insider since Oct 2014 it is a great program and you might even help resolve serious issues from making it out into the wild.
You can mirror the whole HDD to the new SSD if the used space can fit onto the new SSD drive, and the HDD is in good shape.
There are many cloning software programs, As stated Samsung has a Migration Tool that has a link for a free download that comes with their SSD. Or you can use Macrium Reflect, Easeus Todo Backup, Aoemi Backerupper, or Acronis True Image. It's best to create a bootable USB Rescue disk in the clone software and boot with the USB Flash and run the Clone job Outside of Windows. Be sure to select the Whole drive that C: is on, the Source Drive. When cloning, including all small hidden partitions. Then choose to Clone it to your SSD, the Destination Drive.
BTW, Your Windows 10 Product key is embedded in your UEFI Bios of your motherboard, so you can reinstall Windows 10 as much as you like on that computer and not have to type in your product key.
Check the website of the SSD's manufacturer. They will often include free cloning software.
There's also Macrium Reflect Free and EaseUS Todo Backup Free.
Yep. Clone the D: drive to your new drive and swap the drives out. If you have both the old and the new drives installed, yes, just reassign the drive letters. Macrium Reflect Free does drive cloning flawlessly.
You can clone the old drive to the new one, they should be the same size or the new one should be larger. You can use a program called Macrium Reflect it's free, you can get it here: https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree
Here is the instructions on how to make a clone of a drive https://knowledgebase.macrium.com/display/KNOW72/Cloning+a+disk
Or you can do a clean windows install to the new ssd. Download the media creation tool from the microsoft website and make a bootable usb disk with the windows installer on it. Shutdown and unplug the old drive and leave only the new one plugged. Plug the usb and boot to the windows installer and install a new copy of windows. You don't need to enter your key during the installation as it is stored along with your machine information and windows will be activated once you are online.
Edit: If you do a clean install you will need to reinstall all the drivers and applications you had on the system.
I don't know where people get this "It's best to do a clean install" from. Changing out motherboard and CPU, yes, why live with likely instability problems difficult to diagnose.
I have done three migrations using Macrium Reflect and one of my sons has done another. All of these were even over to a larger capacity drive than the donor drive. macrium as far as I know is one of the few that makes this not only easy, but possible. All have performed flawlessly for between one to two years. Certainly as well as my recent fresh Windows installations.
Anyone looking for backup/imaging software, Macrium Reflect does damn near everything you could possibly want, including compression, forensic backups, booting VMs from an image (w/ the viboot add-on with windows pro hyper-v), and is completely free
Samung has utilties for cloning into a new drive https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/download/tools/
Your disk may well too. Or you can make a copy with https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree
Try Macrium. Chances are, your HDD is larger in size than your new SSD. Macrium is the only cloning software I am aware of that allows you to clone to a smaller volume target drive from a larger drive....provided the new SSD has enough space for the original OS and data. Make sure their is plenty of room on the target drive. If there isn't, Macrium may allow you to exclude the transfer of back up copy of Windows, which is redundant anyhow as you'll still have your complete copy of Windows on the original drive to use as a back up.
Existem diferentes programas que você pode usar para fazer a clonagem.
A necessidade principal é que a quantidade de dados ocupados no disco original seja menor que o tamanho total do SSD. (Exemplo: Você tem um HD de um 1TB com 200GB ocupados -> Você precisa de um SSD de 240GB e vai ter apenas 40GB livres após a transferência)
Caso esteja usando um PC, recomendo o Macrium Reflect 7 que além de gratuíto (por 30 dias se não me engano) é relativamente simpes e amigável de se usar.
Caso esteja usando um MAC, recomendo o Carbon Copy Cloner que é igualmente simples e intuitivo além de ser gratuito por 30 dias.
https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree
Download that, plug in both drives and: Clone drive 2 onto drive 3 Power down Unplug drive 2, move drive 3 to its position Power up. If it boots and works right, check the files, make sure there is no corruption, and you’re golden.
After that, scrub the old drive 2 and turn it into a porn catalog.
Just use a cloning software and do it yourself.
If system is working fine, you don't want to send it back and get something new screwed in return.
You may use Macrium Reflect 7, if you want. https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree
Following tutorial to help you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufaX_d8o1ZM
Once cloning is done, don't forget to select your SSD as your boot drive in your BIOS setup.
Call tech support and let them do migration for you, only if you think you can't do it by your own.
But, if you have got a new system that is working fine otherwise, there is a risk that you get new issues once you receive it back from service center.
Using hard drives/ssds the way you want doesn't void your warranty.
Download something free like Macrium Reflect (or CloneZilla if you're old school) and create an image of your working system. Macrium has the option of creating the clone from within Windows or you can create removable media, boot from it, and create/restore a system image.
Do some simple diagnostics with task manager, try to see what is using the processor. Try Edge if you're using Chrome. Nuke and start over is a last resort, but if you need to, here's good backup program: Macrium Reflect Free.
edit: redirect to OP /u/marcocet
Sounds like SyncToy is just what you're looking for. I wrote a guide for it here.
Alternately, just back up all of your partitions with Macrium Reflect Free, and run a differential backup every month (or whenever).
You could clone it using Macrium, as there is a free version and it works great. I use it myself. Doing this you will not have to re-install any software, programs, etc. This is one option.
Doing a new install is another option. Doing so allows you to start from scratch which is fine, but you have to install any software you previously had, personal settings, etc. This is what takes the most time.
Myself, I would do a clean install. In the end the choice is your to decide.
Reinstalling to Windows 7 sounds like a good idea in your case.
With regard to common user data folder locations: In Windows 7 and newer almost all user data is located in C:\Users\[username]\ and occasionally you'll find something in C:\Users\Public\ .
With regards to the drivers: You can probably download any drivers Windows 7 does not have built-in from Toshiba's website. Especially if the computer came with Windows 7 originally.
And a final note: I always make a copy of the entire hard drive before wiping anything for a reinstallation. Macrium Reflect Free is good for this purpose.
Nah, you can use Disk Utility to create a "read only" disk image of the Windows partition, rename it to .img, and use something like OSFMount in Windows to mount it.
There's other software you can use if you're trying to edit an SD image on Windows. I use OSFMount, which allows me to use the image as if it were a real SD card. Just make sure you unmount the image before you fire up Dolphin.
If you use it in the right place it makes a world of difference.
For example diablo3 on release had horrible loading times and only required ~8gb of ram, andthe full install was just under 8gb. Making an 8gb ramdrive and copying over all the files to it was a clear improvement, as you could frontload all of your load times.
I agree it's probably not worth the effort for 99% of the users, but thats true of a lot of functionality built into windows, so I don't see why this couldn't make the cut. One of the biggest annoyances I've had with previous versions of windows is I know microsoft has some awesome tools(the entire sysinternals bundle for example), but they never make their way in to a default install so it might as well be any third party tool at that point.
Or hell look at mounting isos. Very standard functionality built in to pretty much all other OS's by this point. Does microsoft have it? Well, not built in, but you could install their tool to do it rather than one of the third party ones that get bundled with crapware. That's been a solution since winxp, yet just now it's finally getting bundled in to the OS.
No new hardware... though "virtual" hardware. I downloaded and installed Microsoft's Virtual CD Control Panel (for ISO mounting). EDIT: This was done last night.
I guess that could have triggered it... still. I've added virtual drives to machines before and never triggered a re-activation. I've swapped GPUs and CD/DVD drives without re-activations...
Maybe because it's Microsoft's software?
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Searching for "zoombinis" on archive.org gives a bunch of hits:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=zoombinis
As for ISO mounting software? My laptop came with one installed by default, but it shouldn't be hard to find free software online. I'd recommend MagicISO
Take songs you want, build an Audio CD out of them, switch to a bin+cue image of that in RetroArch when the game has you swap discs using the Quick Menu's disc controls.
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Simplest dumbed-down way would be to use MagicISO to directly build an Audio CD image from your songs. Note that when unregistered, MagicISO will only let you export a bin+cue that's under 350MB.
How did you convert the file? Have you tried any other software for mounting? IIRC, you can get a piece of software called MagicISO or MagicRom or something. On mobile, will check.
EDIT; MagicDisk http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-magicdisc-history.htm
This should take care of it. "An ISO image is an archive file of an optical disc, a type of disk image composed of the data contents from every written sector on an optical disc, including the optical disc file system. ISO image files usually have a file extension of .iso." so the whole cd is the iso. This will copy it then I highly recommend Rufus to toss it on the thumb drive. Best of luck http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-isomakerwin.htm