Obviously IMPOSSIBLE to mount a hard disk dir. as if an IDE/ATAPI device ?

Hi,
I've been searching for a software allowing you to mount
or rather to emulate a directory on your HD (say 'D:\myDir')
as a *real* IDE/ATAPI drive on another drive letter, I do
want my system (Windows 2000) to believe -or at least a certain
software I use- that this J: or K: or whatever letter I've
mounted my dir. on is a CD/DVD-rom drive... (the cmd 'subst'
is not enough with the software I use -DVDDecrypter actually-)

Anybody ever heard such a software exists ?

Thanks a lot !
Regards,
Spendius

On 26 Jun 2003 03:45:41 -0700, [email]spendius@muchomail.com[/email] (Spendius)
wrote:
[color=blue]
>Hi,
>I've been searching for a software allowing you to mount
>or rather to emulate a directory on your HD (say 'D:\myDir')
>as a *real* IDE/ATAPI drive on another drive letter, I do
>want my system (Windows 2000) to believe -or at least a certain
>software I use- that this J: or K: or whatever letter I've
>mounted my dir. on is a CD/DVD-rom drive... (the cmd 'subst'
>is not enough with the software I use -DVDDecrypter actually-)
>
>Anybody ever heard such a software exists ?
>
>Thanks a lot !
>Regards,
>Spendius[/color]

Try Daemon tools, that will allow you to do so.

[url]http://www.cd-rw.org/software/cdr_software/cdr_tools/daemon_tools.cfm[/url]

You also can mount cd/dvd iso image files as drive letters then, and
even watch films in say powerdvd.



EBuyerdotcon "Made the wrong choice, didn't you?"
[url]www.ebuyerdotcon.co.uk[/url]

Daemon Tools 3.3 (Freeware) will do this with an ISO file. "Daemon Tools
mounts your CD image files as virtual drives and emulates copy protections.
.... "

For standard files, have you considered Windows "Map Network Drive"
Function? This will allow you to designate, for example, a certain
subdirectory on the harddrive as J:, or whatever.

"Spendius" <spendius@muchomail.com> wrote in message
news:aba30b75.0306260245.5e3052c8@posting.google.com...[color=blue]
> Hi,
> I've been searching for a software allowing you to mount
> or rather to emulate a directory on your HD (say 'D:\myDir')
> as a *real* IDE/ATAPI drive on another drive letter, I do
> want my system (Windows 2000) to believe -or at least a certain
> software I use- that this J: or K: or whatever letter I've
> mounted my dir. on is a CD/DVD-rom drive... (the cmd 'subst'
> is not enough with the software I use -DVDDecrypter actually-)
>
> Anybody ever heard such a software exists ?
>
> Thanks a lot !
> Regards,
> Spendius[/color]

[email]comments@ebuyerdotcon.co.uk[/email] (EBuyerdotcon) wrote...[color=blue]
> Try Daemon tools, that will allow you to do so.
>
> [url]http://www.cd-rw.org/software/cdr_software/cdr_tools/daemon_tools.cfm[/url]
>
> You also can mount cd/dvd iso image files as drive letters then, and
> even watch films in say powerdvd.[/color]

No, no: if DaemonTools only permits to mount ISO images as
CD-ROM drives, that's not what I'm looking for: I want to be
able to mount *any* directory (whatever its contents, ISO files
or not) as an IDE/ATAPI device...

On 26 Jun 2003 11:12:27 -0700, [email]spendius@muchomail.com[/email] (Spendius)
wrote:
[color=blue]
>comments@ebuyerdotcon.co.uk (EBuyerdotcon) wrote...[color=green]
>> Try Daemon tools, that will allow you to do so.
>>
>> [url]http://www.cd-rw.org/software/cdr_software/cdr_tools/daemon_tools.cfm[/url]
>>
>> You also can mount cd/dvd iso image files as drive letters then, and
>> even watch films in say powerdvd.[/color]
>
>No, no: if DaemonTools only permits to mount ISO images as
>CD-ROM drives, that's not what I'm looking for: I want to be
>able to mount *any* directory (whatever its contents, ISO files
>or not) as an IDE/ATAPI device...[/color]

Well just burn a image with just the disc entitled the folder name and
the files within it, and mount that.


EBuyerdotcon "Made the wrong choice, didn't you?"
[url]www.ebuyerdotcon.co.uk[/url]

CLONECD from [url]www.elby.ch[/url] seems to have the ability to do what you want. Adds
a "virtual" CD Drive on install options.

Hope this helps

Dave B
"Spendius" <spendius@muchomail.com> wrote in message
news:aba30b75.0306260245.5e3052c8@posting.google.com...[color=blue]
> Hi,
> I've been searching for a software allowing you to mount
> or rather to emulate a directory on your HD (say 'D:\myDir')
> as a *real* IDE/ATAPI drive on another drive letter, I do
> want my system (Windows 2000) to believe -or at least a certain
> software I use- that this J: or K: or whatever letter I've
> mounted my dir. on is a CD/DVD-rom drive... (the cmd 'subst'
> is not enough with the software I use -DVDDecrypter actually-)
>
> Anybody ever heard such a software exists ?
>
> Thanks a lot !
> Regards,
> Spendius[/color]