How to mount disk (disk mounting or whatever it is)?

Question

And by the way, what exactly is disk mounting. I'd appreciate a detailed answer, thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You did not mention your operating system.

This is usually a file server expression used to describe the act of making a hard drive available for use by the users.

Need to know your OS to tell you how to do it in your specific system.

Answer 2

Basically, there are programs that create what is called a virtual drive. The virtual drives are displayed in "my computer". They are virtual drives because the computer acts like you have another DVD/CD-Rom drive, but you really don't. You have a virtual drive.

Unlike physical drives, where you can push the eject button and insert a "physical" disc, a virtual drive can only use "virtual" discs.Virtual discs also known as Image files. (ISO, NGR, and even .ZIP to an extend are all image files). You insert image files to virtual drives by what is called disc mounting.

There are a couple of programs that create virtual drives that you can use for disc mounting such as:

Daemon tools

Power ISO

Win ISO

In contrast, to create a virtual disc is simple. When using a DVD/CD burning program. Set the destination to "Image file" and that will basically create an image of your physical disc that is stored on your computer. In order to have access to this image you must mount it to a virtual drive, or use a DVD/CD burning program to burn the image to a blank "physical" disc and put it in your "physical" DVD/CD Rom drive.

Disc mounting is nice to have when you want to copy something but you don't want to have to insert the disc every time you want to use it. It is used for making back ups of your hard copies. A lot of hackers use it to create virtual copies of games and programs, so they don't have to use the original discs to run the programs, etc.

I hope that helps

Answer 3

Please repost with your operating system.  It's different in unix, linux, windows, macs, etc.

Mounting a disk is just making it accessible throught the computer's file system.  (This is why it's operating system specific.)

Answer 4

(I'm just going to amuse you are using windows since you did not specify, but the process is similar with other operating systems.)

When you mount a disc image (usually an ISO file), you are emulating a CD-drive. Essentially, the emulator tricks the computer into thinking it has a new drive and that the selected disc is inside. Upsides to this is that it eliminates the need for constant disc changing and offers a form of back up if your disc ever breaks or gets lost. Some cons to disc mounting is that it requires the disc image, which can take up a considerable chunk of space. Using a program like Daemon Tools can make the mounting process as simple as a click.

http://www.disc-tools.com/download/daemo...

After installing Daemon Tools, look at lower right hand corner of your screen by the clock. Find the symbol for Daemon Tools (mine is a red box with a thunderbolt like thing, but I think I have an old version) and right click it. After that select Virtual CD/DVD-ROM and set the number of "Virtual Drives" you want to create. Then mount the image from the Virtual CD/DVD-ROM menu. Sometimes programs were created to detect when you are using a CD image, so you may need to use programs like YASU to trick the program.

Answer 5

"Disk mounting" is where you have a pre-recorded "image" of a CD or DVD, usually in either an ".ISO" format, or two files such as a ".MDF" and ".MDS" file. You can use programs such as "Daemon Tools" or "Power ISO" to "mount" these files. Basically meaning the programs create a virtual CD drive, fooling your computer into thinking there is a CD inserted into this magical new drive. And then you can use the just as if you had the real disk, Install the game/program.

However, if it is a game, it usually does NOT work when running the game, as the game will still ask you for the CD/DVD, as it only checks you're REAL drives, although this should work for older games.

For Macs it's much the same, but the files I think are ".DMA" files or something. but the principal is much the same. Hope that clears things up for you :D