Windows 10: mounting an ISO to a specific drive letter and keeping that drive letter after boot
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/01
I tried finding a way with the built-in Windows tools to keep an ISO mounted to a specific drive letter (some software remembers the drive letter it got installed from and disallows changing it).
I couldn’t. Luckily there is WinCDEmu which supports more formats than the built-in Windows tools as well.
[WayBack] WinCDEmu – How to keep images mounted
- Right click the ISO file
- Choose
Select drive letter & mount- In the popup dialog, put check marks if you need any of these options:
Disable autorun for this timeKeep drive after restart
So I can add that to the list of WinCDEmu features I wrote about before (from newer to older):
- When upgrading to Windows 10, you can use portable WinCDEmu to mount the original ISO image (Windows 10 doesn’t require the image after upgrading): Some notes on my Windows 10 upgrade processes.
- Portable WinCDEmu
- ISO CD/DVD image mounting tools for Windows.
WinCDEmu is open source; if you want to build it from scratch, you need these repositories:
- sysprogs/WinCDEmu
- sysprogs/BazisLib: A multiplatform system library
- sysprogs/stlport-kernel: Kernel-mode fork of STLPort
–jeroen
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