Pros
First, people need to read the system requirements. This has been tested up to Windows Vista, so don't expect it to work right in 7 or 8. It installs a SCSI driver that isn't compatible with those systems.
Second, it DOES mount ISOs pretty well.
Cons
But it doesn't burn them. I tried to get it to work correctly with Windows Media Player but it didn't work right. It comes up that the disc is damaged, but it's just a blank ISO. I don't know what to do about that. I lowered the burn speed and that did nothing.
Summary
Get your OS straight before downloading it. Also don't expect it to burn ISOs for you. If it works on your system, consider it a perk.
Pros
I cannot think of a single pro.
Cons
Blows a Windows 7 system to hell.
Multiple system repair/restore starts required to remove the software.
Summary
You will not just waste your time. You will possibly waste your computer, its programs and its data.
Pros
Using version 2.0 and it is simple perfect if you don't have a burner. In my case I needed to create a windows 7 system recovery disc and this program allow me to save it as a iso. This worked without issue on Windows 7 x64 well on my part.
Cons
Nothing so far.
Summary
Works as it should
Pros
None available.
Cons
Well... Do install inside a VM to see how nice it will kill it. Windows 8 and 8.1 preview both BSODs. Recovery does not help. Need to roll back the snapshots on a VM.
Summary
Stay away from this company products. Drop it loke hot.
Pros
lol, probably the fact that I do not have the money to bring this company in front of a judge
Cons
When you install this beautiful product under windows 8 you will END in an ENDless loop of reboots ENDING up shutting off your pc manually a lot of times and literally f...ing up your hard drive
Summary
my new alienware m17 (3000€ worth) it's in assistance, they will change the HD. compliments I hope someone will bring you to the court.
Pros
Worked great, until my computer was turned off (that night) and back on again (the next morning). It allows you to emulate a blank DVD/CD, which is sooo useful, when creating/updating recovery or other discs for storage.
Cons
The KernSafe SCSI Controller Driver that installs with it has major issues initializing during PC Boot. One of two scenarios are nearly guaranteed for some OS's... The system won't start and requires a system recovery or the system hangs "trying to repair" for a long time and will finally boot with the KernSafe driver being removed and detected as an "unknown device". Reinstalling the driver for the "unknown device" repeats the problem. It, also, causes the computer to hang, when going into standby/suspend. Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit "and" 32 bit (fully updated with no other issues) both had the identical problem. I attempted to register for their forum and notify them of the problem, but they took my information and never sent a confirmation email to activate the account(most likely why the only complaints listed are a couple years old). There is NO updated driver to resolve this issue.
Summary
Very disappointing; the ability to properly emulate a blank CD/DVD, that can be written to, was something I've been trying to hunt down for days. I suppose if you never turn your computer off or let it go into standby, you'll have a great product (until your CPU or hard drive burns out). Yet again, C-Net gives a raving review on a poor product... what are you guys doing over there? Bring a tech on board to do your app testing for Pete's sake.
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Reply by ndm13 on January 31, 2014
Thanks for, unlike other people, explaining the issue. This helps a lot!
Pros
Lets you create CD/DVD image instead of using optical media.
Cons
Caused system problems under Windows 8
Summary
This product worked very well for me under Windows 7. The interface takes getting used to, and it's not something you can just drop in and use without making an effort to figure out how to create a drive, image, etc.
When I upgraded a computer to Windows 8, things fell apart. I got a BSOD whenever I tried to put the computer to sleep, meaning the laptop blew up whenever the lid was closed. Once I traced it to their driver by analyzing the dump, I tried to uninstall it. I got a BSOD each time shortly after the uninstall started. I then removed the devices using Device Manager and was able to do the uninstall. But the devices kept returning and showing up in Device Manager even if I uninstalled them again. Disabling them did the trick, and manually deleting the driver (once the product was uninstalled and disabled) and deleting the registry entries manually fixed the problem.
I hope they get this working under Windows 8 some day. If you want to do something such as create an image of a rescue disk, or something else that requires an actual optical drive, this works great. It even works on Windows 8, if you don't mind the rest of the system not working properly.
As with any software, it's always best to do a complete backup before installing it, or at least create a restore point. A restore point might have saved me, except it was already on the system from before the OS upgrade.
Pros
Neat interface?
Cons
The guy below who claimed this gave his comp. BSOD was correct. The same thing happened to me; windows repair diagnostics confirmed that the problem came from the driver this program installs. Thank God for system restore.
Summary
This program is broken and WILL trash your computer.
Pros
Good interface.
Works as described.
Cons
Has some problems burning audio due to fact that is is just virtual and cd burning programs want writer details
Summary
A really good thing to use if you don't have cds/cd burners at hand.
Pros
Free - but you get what you pay for.
Cons
Installed OK, but upon first use discovered that in DVD mode it is capable of "burning" only a DVD-5, 4.7GB capacity (i.e., single layer) DVD. It is not designed to create a dual-layer DVD-9 virtual disc. Therefore it is useless as an intermediate step before using DVD Shrink to burn a > 4.7GB project (e.g., from a video-editing program) to a single-layer actual optical disc. But this doesn't matter, because it doesn't even do that — at least it didn't for me. What it did do is lock up Windows 7, and upon reboot cause Windows to hang at startup for longer than I was willing to wait (>15 minutes).
Summary
Not only didn't work, it required me to restore Windows to a pre-TotalMount state. Try it if you dare.
Updated on May 26, 2012
What appears to be me cursing ("—") in my review is actually HTML code for an em-dash, which wasn't revealed until I had already posted - and I can't remove it. So go ahead and consider it me cursing.
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