WinImage in Vista   

I've got some good guidance in this forum and I am grateful to people who 
assisted me in solving my problems. I especially indebted to Andre Da Costa. 
Let me explain my problem anew since it is still ridiculously unresolved.

I need to open/unzip/make workable software stored in ISO images. I tried 
DAEMON and that turned out to be malware. I finally rolled the system back 
and got rid of it. then I tried MagicDisk which turned out to be even more 
malicious malware. Could you believe my bad luck? I got rid of this beast as 
well. Another rollback.

BTW, I've got Vista Ultimate. Now I downloaded WinImage. I kind of liked 
their ad, their website, etc. It does not seem to be malicious. It is French 
made.I do not know if this is a recommendation or not but this is the fact. 
The demo does not seem to do much and I decided to explore further. I 
downloaded "freeware" from the same guy, Gilles, it is called extract.exe 
and tried to extract one of my images in Command Prompt. It gave me an 
immediate error:"This is not a disk file." Whoops!

Then I decided to purchase it. Went to their website and navigated myself to 
the place where I could drop my hard earned greenbacks in and there is no 
mentioning of Vista at all ANYWHERE!

I need some advice what I should purchase.

I wanted to buy WinImage Professional for $60.00. because aside from using 
it for installations I want to do imaging of my entire system.

They do have a forum but it is moribund. People post there twice or trice a 
month. I posted a couple of questions there anyway.

Thanks.

date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:52:04 -0500   author:   alexB

Re: WinImage in Vista   

"alexB"  wrote in message 
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> BTW, I've got Vista Ultimate. Now I downloaded WinImage.

> I wanted to buy WinImage Professional for $60.00. because aside from using 
> it for installations I want to do imaging of my entire system.

Alex, I've been very happy with using WinImage for making ISO images of CDs, 
VFD images of floppy disks, and other utility purposes. I primarily use 
WinImage on Windows XP. I've not yet had occasion for creating an ISO image 
of a CD on my Vista system, but if I did, I'd install WinImage as my first 
choice.

However, on Vista, for reading ISO images as a "Mounted CD", I started using 
Virtual Clonedrive when I discovered that the MS VirtualCD software wouldn't 
run on Vista.

http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html

I have no complaints with Virtual Clonedrive, and I especially like the way 
it plug into/integrates with the shell -- all I have to do to mount an ISO 
is double click on the ISO, and the image is mounted.

I still use MS VirtualCD on my XP systems, but I've considered converting 
them to Virtual Clonedrive.


-- 
Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCBMSP, MCTS, MCP
Senior Data Architect, APQC, Houston, Texas
Microsoft MVP - Software Distribution (2005-2008)

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date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 09:15:48 -0600   author:   Lawrence Garvin [MVP] alias

Re: WinImage in Vista   

Thank you very much Lawrence, it is very valuable for me.

"Lawrence Garvin [MVP]" <onsite@news.postalias> wrote in message 
news:25D9D893-4F96-4FED-BF69-55F787702CE1@microsoft.com...
> "alexB"  wrote in message 
> news:eBET%23HMSIHA.1204@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>
>> BTW, I've got Vista Ultimate. Now I downloaded WinImage.
>
>> I wanted to buy WinImage Professional for $60.00. because aside from 
>> using it for installations I want to do imaging of my entire system.
>
> Alex, I've been very happy with using WinImage for making ISO images of 
> CDs, VFD images of floppy disks, and other utility purposes. I primarily 
> use WinImage on Windows XP. I've not yet had occasion for creating an ISO 
> image of a CD on my Vista system, but if I did, I'd install WinImage as my 
> first choice.
>
> However, on Vista, for reading ISO images as a "Mounted CD", I started 
> using Virtual Clonedrive when I discovered that the MS VirtualCD software 
> wouldn't run on Vista.
>
> http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html
>
> I have no complaints with Virtual Clonedrive, and I especially like the 
> way it plug into/integrates with the shell -- all I have to do to mount an 
> ISO is double click on the ISO, and the image is mounted.
>
> I still use MS VirtualCD on my XP systems, but I've considered converting 
> them to Virtual Clonedrive.
>
>
> -- 
> Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCBMSP, MCTS, MCP
> Senior Data Architect, APQC, Houston, Texas
> Microsoft MVP - Software Distribution (2005-2008)
>
> MS WSUS Website: http://www.microsoft.com/wsus
> My Websites: http://www.onsitechsolutions.com; 
> http://wsusinfo.onsitechsolutions.com
> My MVP Profile: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Lawrence.Garvin
>

date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 16:22:08 -0500   author:   alexB