How to mount an iso image without help

It is characteristic that the question of how to mount an iso image without the help of a specialist, users of a personal computer are asked more often. That's right, we live in the XXI century, when almost any information can be found independently and independently, install special programs on the PC, the use of which is not at all difficult.

Nobody takes bread from the workers of service centers, but I want to avoid unpleasant moments of cooperation with some specialists. For example, the master needs sometimes to wait very long. Personally, in the old days, when I arrived, in the end the specialist, without thinking long, just formatted the C drive , reinstalled the operating system, took the money and left. The next day the problem, due to which I called it, was repeated, but on the phone this "specialist" said that it does not concern him, because the operating system was loaded the day before.

In addition, such questions as how to mount the image of iso, are easily solved independently, without outside help. If you do everything right, then the slightest problems should not arise. Last time readers could learn how to mount an image using the program "Daemon Tools". Today I offer to your attention, training to work with no less popular program - Alcohol 120%. You can download it for free, for example, at http://www.softportal.com/software-1521-alcohol-120.html or elsewhere, or you can buy an installation disc in special stores.

How to mount an image with Alcohol 120%: Having installed it on your personal computer, make a number of necessary settings to start, which is of no special complexity, since the program in use is extremely simple and very convenient. Set the number of virtual drives by running the program and entering the menu item "Tools", and in the list of submenus that appear, select - "Settings". Then, on the "Virtual Disk" tab, set the desired number of virtual disks. I have one, but you can install them up to 31.

How to mount an image by making the initial settings even easier: In the window of the running program on the left you will see the panel and in it in the settings immediately select "Virtual disk". One click and all. The created virtual drive is analogous to your CD-ROM for reading CDs. The difference is that with the help of virtual you will read the images, pointing to them the way. In the program Alcohol 120%, by the way, it is enough, just pull the image of the disk with a mouse and throw it into its main window. Two mouse clicks and it will start.

If you install several such virtual drives, you can associate them all with certain desired images. Enter again into the "Virtual Disk" window and select "File Association" in it. There, mark all the extensions with the "Select All" button.

Some advanced users of PCs believe that it is necessary to do this, but I personally have only one virtual drive and only one extension is marked. This is "mds" - "Media Descriptor Image". He in the above window is the topmost and I have never had to deal with problems in the question - how to mount an image. Just in case, select everything and save the settings made by clicking on "OK".

In principle, we can say that all the settings necessary for a normal user of a personal computer have been made. Now we learn directly how to mount the image with the help of Alcohol 120%. Everything is extremely simple.

Go back to the main window and go to the main menu item "File". In the drop-down submenu, select "Open" and specify the path to the disk image you need. It will be added to the program. Then, clicking on the selected image (already in the program) with the right mouse button, select the left one in the "Mount to Device" menu that appears, indicating the one you created earlier, respectively. Dismantling is carried out in a similar way.

Now you know how to mount an image with Alcohol 120%. I'll just add that I prefer to just set the desired images with the mouse - I pressed (on the image) the right button - I pulled it into the program window - released it. All, work for health!