It is typical that the question of how to mount an iso image without the help of a specialist is increasingly being asked by personal computer users. That's right, we live in the XXI century, when almost any information can be found independently and also independently, to install special programs on a PC, the use of which is not at all difficult.
No one takes bread from service center employees, but I want to avoid the unpleasant moments of cooperation with some specialists. For example, the wizard sometimes needs to wait a very long time. Personally, in the old days, I arrived, in the end a specialist, without thinking for a long time, just formatted the C drive , reinstalled the operating system, took the money and left. The next day, the problem that caused me to call him repeated, but on the phone this "specialist" said that he was no longer concerned, since the operating system was loading the day before.
In addition, issues such as mounting an iso image are easily resolved independently, without any help. If you do everything right, then the slightest problems should not arise. Last time, readers could familiarize themselves with how to mount an image using the Daemon Tools program. Today I bring to your attention, training in working with an equally popular program - Alcohol 120%. You can download it for free, for example, at http://www.softportal.com/software-1521-alcohol-120.html or elsewhere, or you can buy an installation disk in special stores.
How to mount an image using Alcohol 120%: After installing it on your personal computer, first make a number of necessary settings, which is not particularly difficult, since the program is extremely simple and very convenient to use. Set the number of virtual drives by running the program and entering the menu of the "Service" item, and in the list of submenus that appear, select - "Settings". Then, on the “Virtual Disk” tab, set the desired number of virtual disks. I have one, but you can install them up to 31.
How to mount the image by making the initial settings is even simpler: In the window of the launched program on the left you will see a panel and in it in the settings immediately select "Virtual Disk". One click and all. The virtual drive you created is the equivalent of your CD-ROM drive. The difference is that with the help of virtual you will read the images, indicating the path to them. In the Alcohol program, 120%, by the way, is enough, just pull the disk image with the mouse and drop it into its main window. Two mouse clicks and it starts.
When you install several of these virtual drives, you can associate them all with certain desired images. Go back to the "Virtual Disk" window and select "File Association" in it. There, mark all extensions with the "Select All" button.
Some advanced PC users believe that this is mandatory, but I personally only have one virtual drive and only one extension is noted. This is "mds" - "Media Descriptor Image". It is the highest in the window indicated above and I have never had to deal with problems in the question - how to mount the image. Just in case, select everything and save the settings by clicking "OK".
In principle, we can say that all the settings necessary for the ordinary user of a personal computer are made. Now we learn directly how to mount the image using the Alcohol 120% program. Everything is extremely simple.
Go back to the main window and go to the "File" main menu item. In the pop-up submenu, select "Open" and specify the path to the disk image you need. He will be added to the program. Then, by clicking on the selected image (already in the program) with the right mouse button, select “Mount on device” in the menu that appears, pointing to any of the previously created ones. Dismantling is carried out in a similar way.
Now you know how to mount the image using Alcohol 120%. I will only add that I prefer to simply install the necessary images with the mouse - I pressed (on the image) with the right button - pulled it into the program window - let it go. Everything, work on health!