Visual Studio ISO files downloaded, how do I run? Do I need virtual drive tool?

Question

I have Visual Studio 2010 Pro on a DVD disc, but it is an ISO image, and I wanted to run this on my home PC in place of 2010 Express Edition.

So first of all, can I run this on my home computer? Do I need a virtual drive tool to run an image on my home computer? Is there a microsoft virtual drive tool? Is there a good resource I could read about this and learn the basics.

Malca

7zip will let you extract files from isos: 7-zip.org – Marcelinomarcell

What OS are you running? – Tremulant

Answer 1

I use MagicISO to mount and install from iso images. It's freeware and there are versions for Windows XP through Windows 7.

Month

Windows 8 and newer come with built-in ISO mounting support. Just associate .iso with explorer.exe (if they're not) and double-click on them. Windows'll mount it to the first available drive letter (excluding A: and B:) and will "eject" on shutdown. – Schreiber

Can also be extracted with any zip utility. I used WinRAR. – Conjure

Answer 2

Use 7-Zip to extract files to some folder.

Allow

I wanted to try this however, if I try to download my AV indicates that is includes spyware/adware?? – Malca

@Malca What antivirus are you using? – Allow

is just the generic McAfee Security Center – Malca

Thanks. I forgot you could do this. i'm glad i looked a little further before installing something else. – Glacialist

Answer 3

Virtual CloneDrive

Supports all common image formats such as ISO, BIN, CCD

Supports up to 8 virtual drives at the same time

Easy to use - just double-click an image file to mount as a drive

Virtual CloneDrive is freeware, you may use it at no cost.

Amend

Hey thanks for the link. This ended up working out the best for me I think! – Malca

It gets no easier! Just install this and then double click the ISO file, and it mounts and autoruns just like you inserted a DVD! – Koziarz

Answer 4

Daemon Tools is a tool capable of mounting ISO files as "fake" CD or DVD drives. Once that has been done you can just run the install program off there as if it was a standard disc in your system.

Refection

Answer 5

You need to mount it as a virtual disk (basically making it look like a DVD in your drive to Windows). I don't use Windows (as I'm a Linux person), but one of these should work (can't post links): PowerISO or Daemon Tools Lite.

Evansville

Answer 6

If you want to make a normal disk you can use "dvdburn" (search google for "dvdburn microsoft"). Or check if your Vista/windows 7 shell allows you to burn it by right click (it exists as shell feature in later Windows-es)

Wittgenstein

Answer 7

Installing ImDisk Toolkit will add "Mount as ImDisk Virtual Disk" item to your Windows context menu.

Then following dialog pops up:

And it actually works:

Musca

Answer 8

Not trusting any third party/potentially malware iso mounting options, I ended up just downloading it again. Microsoft has a second download option that is an exe instead of an iso.

Anna

You could just burn it into a dvd. Windows has default dvd burner application. – Croce

@Croce my PC doesn't have a DVD drive. – Anna

Answer 9

WinCDEmu is open source. You can checkout build from their website or Github: https://github.com/sysprogs/WinCDEmu/releases/

Warford