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Lurchdubious
Oct 30, 2008, 07:55 PM
I have a CD-ROM that came with a textbook and it only works with PC. I have just installed VMWare Fusion and XP Home and it's running fine, but I would like to NOT have to travel around with this disc in my optical drive all the time. Is there a way I can copy it to the windows desktop and fool it into thinking the disc is installed?


TheCakeIsALie
Oct 30, 2008, 08:15 PM
It's called virtual drive and you can emulate one using Daemon Tools Lite (free) or Alcohol 120%. You need to first create an image of your CD though.
Lurchdubious
Oct 30, 2008, 08:25 PM
It's called virtual drive and you can emulate one using Daemon Tools Lite (free) or Alcohol 120%. You need to first create an image of your CD though.

ok, so do I make a dmg in Leopard, then just transfer it over to XP? If it's in my shared folder on the XP desktop, will that work, or do I need to completely move the file to Windblows?

I'll go look for a virtual drive now...
Lurchdubious
Oct 30, 2008, 08:33 PM
It's called virtual drive and you can emulate one using Daemon Tools Lite (free) or Alcohol 120%. You need to first create an image of your CD though.

What about Gizmo Drive?
TheCakeIsALie
Oct 30, 2008, 08:41 PM
ok, so do I make a dmg in Leopard, then just transfer it over to XP? If it's in my shared folder on the XP desktop, will that work, or do I need to completely move the file to Windblows?

I'll go look for a virtual drive now...

Why would you want dmg image? From what I understand you want to use the virtual drive and virtual disc under XP, so dom isn't a good idea. Just make into an ISO image using something like MagicISO, then mount this under XP using a virtual drive program.

Yes, Gizmo drive works but from what I can tell Daemon Tools is more popular and it's quite good from my experience (free as well). I don't have much experience with Gizmo Drive so I can't say anything for that.
Lurchdubious
Oct 30, 2008, 08:46 PM
Why would you want dmg image? From what I understand you want to use the virtual drive and virtual disc under XP, so dom isn't a good idea. Just make into an ISO image using something like MagicISO, then mount this under XP using a virtual drive program.

Yes, Gizmo drive works but from what I can tell Daemon Tools is more popular and it's quite good from my experience (free as well). I don't have much experience with Gizmo Drive so I can't say anything for that.

Oh ok. Thanks for the help. I found Gizmo on downloads.com and it had decent reviews so I'm creating the iso right now. If I'm not 100% satisfied then I'll grab Daemon. Thanks again!
TheCakeIsALie
Oct 30, 2008, 09:14 PM
Oh ok. Thanks for the help. I found Gizmo on downloads.com and it had decent reviews so I'm creating the iso right now. If I'm not 100% satisfied then I'll grab Daemon. Thanks again!

no probs! hope everything works out for you.
Lurchdubious
Oct 31, 2008, 06:36 PM
ok, need some more help. I can't figure out how to open the iso/mount drive quickly. Is there a shortcut? Like if I have an iso on my image & I can just click on that to start the program? This is driving me nuckin' futs.