Last updated on April 16th, 2012 at 03:16 pm
KernSafe Total Mounter, free virtual CD/DVD-ROM/RW/RAM emulator software that let you mount a CD / DVD images such as bin, cdi, mdf, ccd, nrg, img files as virtual drives. Besides mounting disk images as virtual drives, you can also make these images by creating a CD/DVD-RW virtualized drive and burning virtual data using burning software.
Beside that, KernSafe Total mounter also a free full featured iSCSI initiator, Virtual Discs and it is a client of INetDisk. Which you can write technology in iSCSI indicator with their virtual writes technology and burns it with any burning software.
KernSafe Total Mounter Key Features
- It serves as a CD/DVD-ROM emulator that mounting image files such as iso, cdi, bin, mds, mdf, img, raw, ccd, nrg in to a virtual CD/DVD-ROM drive.
- CD/DVD-RW/RAM emulator that you can create “write” data into an CD/DVD drive, and you can also create ISO 9660 files by using CD burning software.
- Provides a iSCSI Initiator for mount iStorage Server and other iSCSI Target.
- Provides a INetDisk client for mounts INetDisk Server.
- Provides Virtual Write technology , so that you can copy files into a read-only drive and do not affect the peoples using other clients.
- Provides a network-bridged method. It exports an existing partition, disk, CD/DVD-ROM to clients as a virtual iSCSI drive.
- Provides as max as 8 virtual drives.
- Provides simple and banausic management tool, to manage virtual drives.
- No restrictions on disk capacity, total number of hard disk installed, number of CPUs or CPU cores, and the amount of RAM.
- Fully conforms to the latest iSCSI Standard 1.0
This is the best software ever!!!!! Uncomparable and…..
Ooops, sorry, this is not what I was talking about.
This software is bugged somehow, i tried to mount one iso and i got blue screen of death named: BAD_POOL_HEADER
This crashed my computer, too. I had to do a system restore to get the system to boot again, then manually remove the virtual Scsi device.
December 27, 2011: I’ve been testing KernSave TotalMounter v. 1.50, and have noted the following:
1) It is possible to write to the virtual DVD drive it creates, but the drive is about 114 Mb shy of a 4.7 Gb disk, so you could not, for instance, copy a completely full 4.7 Gb single layer DVD to the virtual drive, as it is slightly smaller than needed.
2) When ‘writing’ to the virtual drive, you are actually writing to an iso file you have set up on one of your hard disk drives. This file, however, does not appear to all programs the same way a ‘real’ iso file appears, e.g., using Total Commander, you can not ‘look inside’ the iso file at its contents, as you can with any ‘normal’ iso file. (In addition, initially, after writing to the virtual drive, the iso file was shown as zero length in Total Commander; it later changed to the correct size, about 4.6 Gb.)
3) If you click on the virtual drive’s symbol in Windows Explorer, however, you can see the files that have been ‘written’ to the virtual disk, and it is possible to use ImgBurn (for instance) to create a ‘real’ iso file from the contents of the virtual drive. (I successfully ‘wrote’ a large iso file to the virtual drive as a test, and was able to use ImgBurn to read the drive and recreate an iso of the virtual drive. Using Total Commander, I did a byte-for-byte comparison of the original iso against the newly created one, and they were identical.
4) Under Windows Vista Home Premium with SP2, I experienced some compatibility issues with the TotalMounter device driver installed. On two occasions, other tasks I was doing were going so slow that I could not complete them, and I actually had to do a hard ‘reset’ on those occasions. One time the PC froze, and another time, a Shutdown from the menu would not complete. In addition, I was not able to completely ‘rid’ my PC of the software, even though I had used TotalMounter’s interface to ‘Unmount’ the virtual drive, and Windows Device Manager to uninstall it. Upon reboot, the drive was there again in Device Manager, and showed up in Computer with the same drive letter (though, not being ‘mounted’, it was not accessible.) My recommendation would be to use TotalMounter if you need to write to a virtual drive, then uninstall it completely when you are through.
5) Do not plan to rip a double layer DVD ( ‘DVD+R DL’ ), and then try to write the image using TotalMounter, as TotalMounter does not support DL disks. (This capability would be a desirable feature, as Vista’s Windows DVD Maker insists on writing to a blank DL disk that must be present in a real drive before the program will begin its processing; one cannot save the result of its manipulations to an ISO file. For single layer disks, however, one can get around this limitation by using TotalMounter’s virtual drive, so long as the target file does not exceed about 4.586 Gb.)
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December 27, 2011
Asirutis. Thanks for details info about your experiences on Kernsafe Totalmounter