TotalMounter for Windows

User Reviews

• No Crash and Burn, but No Burn Either...

  ndm13January 31, 2014

  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.

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• 2 hrs of sys restore misery & I still may not be done

  desert4000January 1, 2014

  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.

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• Work Perfectly

  Valus_MckindleyDecember 8, 2013

  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

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• Amazing BSOD creator.

  nismo1968September 16, 2013

  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.

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• Very good if was an HD destroyer

  CinicusJuly 26, 2013

  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.

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• Create a System Restore Point!!!

  lllZlllApril 13, 2013

  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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• Powerful but quirky

  zdnet2January 20, 2013

  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.

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• Bricked my computer.

  AckaDemiaDecember 1, 2012

  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.

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• Really good.

  TomRBifyNovember 9, 2012

  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.

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• Disappointing.

  datdarndotMay 26, 2012

  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.<br /><br /><span class='notifyMsg'> Updated </span>on May 26, 2012<p/>What appears to be me cursing ("&#38;#8212") 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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