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.

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.

Answer 2

Use 7-Zip to extract files to some folder.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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:

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.

Answer 9

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