Recently I built a new x64 or 64 Bit Windows Server 2008 machine. I wanted to install the new Virtual Machine Manager 2008 however because it was an ISO, I needed a way to Mount the ISO image.
A few months back I wrote a How-To Tutorial on Mounting ISO Images for Vista and XP using Virtual Clone Drive. Unfortunatly, Virtual Clone Drive doesn’t support 64-bit. So, after digging around a bit, I found a Free software package that works on both Server 2008 and 64-bit / x64 machines – MagicISO.
How-To Mount ISO Images on x64 Windows Server 2008
1. http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-magicdisc-history.htm
Both the x64 and x86 (64-bit and 32-bit) versions of the software can be found at the Link Above. Personally, I grabbed the x64 version for my Server 2008 Box. Don’t worry that it doesn’t call out “Server 2008”. What I’ve found over the past year Server 2008 was released is almost all Drivers / Software for Vista works on Windows Server 2008.
2. Click Install this driver software anyway IF prompted by Windows Security
3. Once the installer finishes, Click Finish
Once the install is completed, you should notice a new Icon in your toolbar Tray
4. Mount an ISO by Right Clicking on MagicISO icon, Click Virtual CD/DVD-ROM, Click the Drive as it Pops out then Click Mount.
5. Browse to your .ISO file, Click it and Click Open to Mount it in your Virtual Drive
Once it’s been mounted, the ISO will look and feel like a normal DVD / CD. If you open MY COMPUTER, you can verify the ISO was Mounted successfully:
Now remember, you can change all the options such as Drive Letter / Label, Number of Virtual Drives you want MagicISO to Show on the system as well on Un-Mounting the Virtual Drives by Right Clicking on the MagicISO Toolbar Icon
etc… Play around with it.
MagicISO is a very GROOVY piece of Freeware. Works great with Windows Server 2008, Vista and XP. Grab a copy and Mount away…
Tags: magicISO, mount, iso, image, windows-server-2008, how-to, freeware
VirtualClone CD works fine on Windows 7 x64 and it worked fine on Vista x64.
Excellent Help.
Thanks, it worked for me.
Thanks for the feedback and welcome to groovyPost!
Will have to test it out. Thnx for the fyi Marin.
Works great. Never mounting my local CD Drive to install software again. Burning an image then mounting the image is much faster.
Bingo! Hard Drives are much faster than spinning CD's
Thanks so much for these super great instructions! They really helped.
Thank you for the feedback & welcome to the site!
Hi,
Thanks for the article. I tried it on my Windows 2008 Server Standard. But, when I run the application after installation, I keep on getting the following message:
MagicDisk cannot open driver (mcdbus), please make sure MagicDisk is run as administrator.
You need to right click MagicDisk.exe on Windows Explorer, and click on Run As Administrator to run.
I tried running as admin but, still getting the same message. Any help is greatly appreciated. I am running on VMWare.
Wishes,
Kiran.