Daemon tool on Windows 7 successfully installed

[pacman74]

Today i saw the daemon tool Pro version is available with Windows 7 beta supporting (SPTD 1.58), so i tried to install the lite version with it and its work :)

For whose they want to install too, follow this :

1) Download the Daemon Tool Pro and lite version

2) Launch the Pro version to install the SPTD driver

3) The program ask you to reboot, so do it

4) Quit the setup of daemon tool Pro

5) Launch the setup of daemon tool Lite

6) Launch daemon tool as administrator

[edit]- You can now find the SPTD driver directly on http://www.duplexsecure.com/downloads (for x86 and x64) (thanks chaosblade ;) )

-It freeze for a while on the ""Updating Virtual Devices..", be patient (thanks for repport)

enjoy

Edited April 17, 2009 by pacman74

[MuffloN]

Sweet, while I cannot test myself at the moment, I'd love to hear more success with Daemon Tools.

[acido00]

Windows 7 has a native feature to create Virtual DVD Drives =) you will love it.

[HENN3RZ]

Windows 7 has a native feature to create Virtual DVD Drives =) you will love it.

where is that? I would like to know, would be useful! :)

[MuffloN]

Windows 7 has a native feature to create Virtual DVD Drives =) you will love it.

I thought it could make .VHD (Virtual Hard Drives) but not virtual DVD drives?

[Guest xiphi]

Windows 7 has a native feature to create Virtual DVD Drives =) you will love it.

No it does not. It has native support for mounting and booting from VHD's. Completely different.

[Guest xiphi]

I've been able to successfully install Daemon Tools Lite, also.

For anyone who just wants to grab the SPTD driver: http://cid-35b21d59791ca422.skydrive.live....se.aspx/.Public

[+BeLGaRaTh Subscriber¹]

Why do people insist on using daemon tools, all you need is Virtual Clonedrive, unless you are pirating software?

[Maccik2]

Deamon Tools 3.17 worked for me fine every build of Win 7

[NEVER85]

Why do people insist on using daemon tools, all you need is Virtual Clonedrive, unless you are pirating software?

Because Virtual CloneDrive isn't nearly as good. It can't mount as many image files as DT.

[HawkMan]

It also doesn't work nearly as well, with context menu options and all that.

And then there's things like MediaPortal wich has support to auto mount image files in DT for you, of course DT ha an artifical blcook to stop you from installing on 7 beta for now.

[jefexp]

Why do people insist on using daemon tools, all you need is Virtual Clonedrive, unless you are pirating software?

Why does everyone say that? It's so not true. I use Alcohol52% for my games. For example I legally purchased 2142, then made a image of it. I put that image on my 3x 300GB VelociRaptors in RAID0....the games/maps load almost instantly, instead of waiting for the dvd to be spun up and read.

You can't use Virtual Clonedrive for that, as it does not work for images of games and such.

[Olemus]

Why does everyone say that? It's so not true. I use Alcohol52% for my games. For example I legally purchased 2142, then made a image of it. I put that image on my 3x 300GB VelociRaptors in RAID0....the games/maps load almost instantly, instead of waiting for the dvd to be spun up and read.

You can't use Virtual Clonedrive for that, as it does not work for images of games and such.

BF2142 only uses the DVD when it starts up and then doesnt read from it again same with 99% of games nowadays. Not that I agree with the people on the whole Daemon tools is for piracy thing.

Edited April 9, 2009 by LonelyCooler

[wehavetogoback]

Deamon Tools 3.17 worked for me fine every build of Win 7

x64 :| ?

[Linkinfamous]

Why do people insist on using daemon tools, all you need is Virtual Clonedrive, unless you are pirating software?

Who is pirating? I loathe dvd checks, and some games simply don't have no-cd patches (Or aren't up to date with patches). So you get a nice little 100kb image that can mount in Daemon tools....

[Inctye]

x64 :| ?

It has to be only for x86. DT has not worked for anyone with x64.

I originally was using DT, but I realized it is extra bloat for me when Poweriso already had virtual drives.

[jefexp]

BF2142 only uses the DVD when it starts up and then doesnt read from it again same with 99% of games nowadays. Not that I agree with the people on the whole Daemon tools is for piracy thing.

...even more of a reason to why people use tools like DT. Why have to pull out the DVD and put it in each time you want to play the game, when you can use DT and have all of your games ready to play instantly? U have like 13 different game images loaded, and all I have to do is double-click the icon and it plays. No need to pull out the DVD and insert it and then get to play.

[Darrian]

It has to be only for x86. DT has not worked for anyone with x64.

I originally was using DT, but I realized it is extra bloat for me when Poweriso already had virtual drives.

Why am I running DT on Windows 7 x64 build 7077 right now, then?

[scratch42069]

The new SPTD driver rules. I installed it and DT Lite 4.30.3 on Windows 7 7077 x64 and it's working great. I had a little problem after installing DT Lite though. When it was enabling the virtual drive after the install, it froze. I rebooted my machine and it worked fine after that. Successfully installed GTA San Andreas from an image I made with Alcohol 120% :)

[Olemus]

...even more of a reason to why people use tools like DT. Why have to pull out the DVD and put it in each time you want to play the game, when you can use DT and have all of your games ready to play instantly? U have like 13 different game images loaded, and all I have to do is double-click the icon and it plays. No need to pull out the DVD and insert it and then get to play.

...I was just pointing something out not saying its wrong to use daemon tools, you stated you do it because your games and maps load faster when in fact they dont because the DVD isnt used at that part of the game.

[MuffloN]

The new SPTD driver rules. I installed it and DT Lite 4.30.3 on Windows 7 7077 x64 and it's working great. I had a little problem after installing DT Lite though. When it was enabling the virtual drive after the install, it froze. I rebooted my machine and it worked fine after that. Successfully installed GTA San Andreas from an image I made with Alcohol 120% :)

Daemon tools freezing after enabling more or one virtual drives is not a Win7 bug, I've known it from some of the earliest Daemon Tools versions.

[Darrian]

Yeah, I had the same problem, but I didn't reboot, I just ended the DT task and restarted it.

[nmeu]

where is that? I would like to know, would be useful! :)

microsoft is always holdin out on us... check this out

;)MSVCD

[Sadelwo]

Why am I running DT on Windows 7 x64 build 7077 right now, then?

And I remember it working on x64 Vista shortly before or after it went Gold.

[DiEMOS]

thats good news, but since I've install Win7 Deamon tools didn't work, so I've switched to PowerIso, which actually I find better and it can burn disks, so I don't use Nero anymore too, 2 birds with 1 stone.