#Mac virtual cd drive emulator how to
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FWIW.The Disc image system is a driver that can mount ISO CD/DVD images into a Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003 based system. I think that is the reason we are now stuck with the current state of affairs. Then they sabotaged that capacity (for reasons of continuing to negotiate digital rights to music, etc., no doubt), and you could no longer easily mount an image _as though in a drive_ but you could burn a physical CD and then re-import it. It used to be that you could download music from the iTunes store, save the CD to an image, mount it, and reimport it without copy protection.

I remember when this used to be easy, but Apple scuttled it, intentionally, I suspect. There seems to be no solution other than Toast MountIt which is what I use, but I fear the day when Toast is gone. Unless I fool the machine into thinking they are mounted in a drive, DVD Player won't start up, and there IS no drive. iso files so I don't have to carry them around when I travel.

#Mac virtual cd drive emulator archive

I archive various instructional DVD's as. Toast Mount It! is the only thing that works. Not on my MacBook Pro that has a second hard drive instead of a SuperDrive. Less than $10 if you can't find any scrap material.) (And it's something you can make yourself so cost is minimal. рџ™‚ So for something like a CD drive, a foam lined enclosure would almost certainly block any noise. I have two sitting in my office and with the covers closed, I have to force myself to remember to check for paper jams, they're that quiet. In the past with old impact dot matrix printers, you could get foam lined housings that greatly reduced the noise. Often faster drives are noiser, so get a 'slow' drive. So I suggest you get an external drive, then with a long enough USB or Firewire cable, you can move the drive away from you, put it on a shelf. But I assume this is like a game where they use the physical media as a form of identification/authentication or whatever. If this is to install, then it would only be a one time thing, so I'd argue that the noise is an acceptable cost.

Having listening to a helicopter-like noise of spinning disc for couple of hours makes me wan't to kill someone with a blunt instrument. (This even assumes you can find some app that fully emulates a drive, which I haven't found yet, at least for Mac.) With enough money, you could even pay someone to make a custom app just for you.but you want cheap. So unless you can find a free one, burning to disk will be the cheapest.

A blank CD or DVD is going to be cheaper than any paid app.

#Mac virtual cd drive emulator mac os

So, is there any cheap.way in mac os to do this?. I've seen apps, usually for Windows, but all the one's I've tried still don't fully emulate a CD/DVD so won't pass copy protection or whatever. So, is there any cheap or even free app to mount iso image as a virtual cd/dvd or a way in mac os to do this? Anyone had a similar experience?

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Mount: exec /System/Library/Filesystems/iso9660.fs/Contents/Resources/mount_iso9660 for /media/iso: No such file or directoryДЄnd don't know how to exactly do whith this. Mount -t iso9660 -o loop ~/myImage.iso ~/media/iso I tried to mount it with mount command in terminal like this: cdr format and mounting does not work either.ДҐ. The app I'm using is aware it's not a real CD drive.Д¤. Double clicking on image (and thus mounting it normally with Disk Utility) is not an option in this case too. I practically don't burn disc nowdays, and even if I do, the OS X available tool is fine for me.ДЈ. I know there's a Toast Titanium app out there with a virtual drive mount option, but buying this program for $99 just to mount a image is a little bit odd. I don't want it рџ‰ Having listening to a helicopter-like noise of spinning disc for couple of hours makes me wan't to kill someone with a blunt instrument.Дў. Now here's what I know, and what I don't want to do рџ™‚ :ДЎ. I need to mount a disk image (.iso) in the system so it is recognized as a CD/DVD drive. I researched this topic quite a lot and haven't found a good solution yet.