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3 stars
Version: Extra Drive Creator Professional 7.3
"Great for CD, though not intuitive, not useful for DVD"
Pros: Worked beautifully for creating a virtual drive from which I could install my CD iso file
Cons: Controls not intuitive. No DVD capability (or else I couldn't find it). Readme file poorly written by non-English speaker and lacks instructions.
Summary: The file downloaded and installed quickly. Although it took me "only" 5 minutes to figure out how to create a drive to run the iso file on my hard disk, I imagine that many people would give up before they figured it out. There are a lot of buttons and check boxes, and they don't connect very logically.
Short-cut keys (ctrl+1, ctrl+2, etc) under Tools do not work.
I also have a DVD iso I am trying to run as a drive and install (to avoid burning a DVD unnecessarily), but it appears that this program does not create DVD drives. I have previously created a virtual DVD drive with that exact same ISO with another program (can't remember which).
To turn an iso on your hard drive into a CD ROM drive from which you can install programs, first click on the "File to Drive" button on the left (short-cut key ctrl+3 does not seem to work).
2nd, click to select a letter for your virtual drive under "Available: Drive".
3rd, click the "New Drive" button (or press Alt+N) to open up the "Create Virtual Drive" dialog box.
4th, select "Mount virtual drive from existing container" by left-clicking on the white circle at left (it should turn green now).
5th, left-click on the "..." button to browse for your ISO file. Find it and click open. The file path should now appear in the "Filename" field.
6th, click the "Next>>" button at the bottom right.
Now the virtual drive should have been created and you can find it in Windows Explorer and run it, or browse it and find the autorun icon and double-click it to run your virtual CD.
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