Standalone command line virtual Drive

[Flying Poo]

I am looking for a single exe, command line, virtual drive software similar to MagicDisc's miso.exe command line utility, i can't use it becuase it requires MagicDisc to be installed. I need something that i can run from a CD that can mount multiple ISOs when inserted (by using an autorun.inf and a batch command file). For example, load a dual-layer DVD and it mounts 4x700mb ISOs to 4 differnet virtual drives. Any suggestions?

[torne]

Can't be done. You need a driver installed on the machine to actually provide the virtual drive, Windows doesn't have such a thing built in. miso requires MagicDisc because all the command line program actually does is give the MagicDisc driver instructions.

To set up something like that to run from a CD on any machine it would have to actually install a driver on the machine it was run on, though I guess it could remove the driver again afterwards.

[Flying Poo]

yes, I had thought about that too. Is there a way to do a silent install with MagicDisc? or maybe just silently copy the drivers for use, then after unmount, remove the drivers?

[notherbastard]

do you want this to work in its own environment, ie a bootable say "dos/windows" based disk, or to run on a machne which already has an OS on it, like windows.

If you want the disk to have its own env. then use a Windows PE disk, and add everything you need...

[Flying Poo]

a mahine that already has its own os, windows, preferably. I thought about hacking the MagicDisk Installer so that it dosent run the progrm after installating and then just run the uninsaller when the scipt completes. sortof like this: run installer > mount virtual drives/ISOs via command line > pause for user input > unmount/remove virtual drives > uninstall.

[notherbastard]

http://www.geocities.com/jadoxa/shsucdx/

Try this.