FS-plugin: VirtualDisk

[white]

white,
Indeed, thank you, basically same as Dalai wrote.

Yeah, true, I was too slow

[Masutin]

1) To confirm, 1.3.3 is the latest and requires rebooting for the driver to work?
2) If you don't mind, is there a driver/tool/plugin that doesn't need a restart to mount ISO?

[Flint]

2Masutin
1. Yes, 1.3.3 is the latest published version. If you follow the readme instructions, then yes, driver installation will require a reboot. However, the same driver can actually be installed without reboot. To do so, you need to skip the INF driver installation procedure, and instead run the following commands from the elevated console:

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sc create vd_filedisk binPath= "C:\Program Files\TotalCmd\plugins\wfx\VirtualDisk\VD_Driver\amd64\vd_filedisk.sys" start= system type= kernel
sc start vd_filedisk

(Of course, the path to the driver file will depend on where you installed the plugin, and if you're using a 32-bit OS, you need to use the driver from the i386 subdir rather than amd64; oh, and "amd64" does not mean AMD only, it's just the name of the architecture that both AMD and Intel 64-bit CPUs implemented.)

2. In the current Windows versions you can mount ISO images without any external tools, it's built into the OS itself. There are lots of instructions in the Internet; one possible solution is the following PowerShell command:

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& mountvol.exe w: $(Mount-DiskImage -ImagePath "c:\path\to\image.iso" -NoDriveLetter -PassThru -StorageType ISO | Get-Volume).UniqueId

Unmounting is then performed using the command

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Dismount-DiskImage "c:\path\to\image.iso"

Path to ISO file and the chosen disk letter in the mountvol command are, of course, up to you.