Mounting file as volume

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Alan

I'm passing this one on, on behalf of a friend, who's asking:
Does anyone have any suggestions for software that mounts a file as
volume?

I'm currently using PGP Disk, which is perfect except I have no need for
encryption, and am getting tired of supplying a paraphrase every time I
mount the drive (hence, can't automatically mount it).

I'm looking something that:
* Is reliable
* Is free
* Works under Win98.

And no, subst is out. Mapping a file sys as a drive is only half of what
I
want to do. The other half is portability - with a single file (with a
volume contained within) it's easy to move the volume around different
machines. Just copy the volume file, and away you go.

Scramdisk is apparently also heavily passphrase-oriented, and is also
unsuited to these requirements.
 
I'm passing this one on, on behalf of a friend, who's asking:
Does anyone have any suggestions for software that mounts a file as
volume?
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DaemonTools mounts a cd *image* as a read/write virtual cd drive - perhaps
you could use that (as a virtual CDRW)?
 
GamePlayer said:
DaemonTools mounts a cd *image* as a read/write virtual cd drive - perhaps
you could use that (as a virtual CDRW)?
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How about sharing the folder and mapping a drive to that :

c:\ net use t: /del
c:\ net use t: \\pc_name\foldername

Simon
 
I'm passing this one on, on behalf of a friend, who's asking:
Does anyone have any suggestions for software that mounts a file as
volume?

I'm currently using PGP Disk, which is perfect except I have no need for
encryption, and am getting tired of supplying a paraphrase every time I
mount the drive (hence, can't automatically mount it).
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why can't you just get something to mount the drive? i dunno what the
process is, but it sounds like you just run something and then supply
a passphrase. is that all?

jack
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why can't you just get something to mount the drive? i dunno what the
process is, but it sounds like you just run something and then supply
a passphrase. is that all?
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Does Daemon tools cover that description (,? ..)
http://www.cd-rw.org/software/cdr_software/cdr_tools/daemon_tools.cfm
http://aldostools.mysite4now.com/daemount.html

I thinking: treating a drive as one readable image but no encryption,
in what way is this differing from what's there already, as you can't
"save" a volume to a file without image backup software.. ah, I see
what he means now..doh, sorry can't think of one right now, if Daemon
tools lets you modify ISO's on the fly it may be somewhat similar.
(And I'd like to add, how about mapping any website folder, any
freeware which does this so that it appears in the drive list).
 
Simon said:
How about sharing the folder and mapping a drive to that :

c:\ net use t: /del
c:\ net use t: \\pc_name\foldername

Simon
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You're certainly on the right track Simon.

I have the impression, from Win2000 Pro anyway, that the drive must be NTFS
and that the folder must be initially empty. Here's some info from the Disk
Management MMC

To create a mounted drive

Open Disk Management.

Right-click the partition or volume you want to mount, and then click Change
Drive Letter and Path.

Do one of the following:

To mount a volume, click Add. Click Mount in this NTFS folder, type the path
to an empty folder on an NTFS volume, or click Browse to locate it.

To unmount a volume, click it and then click Remove.
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Overview of mounting

Using NTFS mounted drives
You can use Disk Management to mount a local drive at any empty folder on a
local NTFS volume. You can format a mounted drive with any file system
supported by Windows
2000.

When you mount a local drive at an empty folder on an NTFS volume, Windows
2000 assigns a drive path to the drive rather than a drive letter. Mounted
drives are not subject
to the 26-drive limit imposed by drive letters, so you can use mounted
drives to access more than 26 drives on your computer. Windows 2000 ensures
that drive paths retain their association to the drive, so you can add or re
arrange storage devices without the drive path failing.

For example, if you have a CD-ROM drive with the drive letter D, and an
NTFS-formatted volume with the drive letter C, you can mount the CD-ROM
drive at an empty folder with the following path: C:\CD-ROM. You can then
access the CD-ROM drive directly through the path C:\CD-ROM. If desired, you
can remove the drive letter D and continue to
access the CD-ROM through the mounted drive path.

Mounted drives make data more accessible and give you the flexibility to
manage data storage based on your work environment and system usage. For
example, you can:
Make the C:\Users folder a mounted drive with NTFS disk quotas, so you can
track or constrain disk usage without doing the same on drive C.
Make the C:\Temp folder a mounted drive to provide additional disk space for
temporary files. Move the Program Files folder to another, larger drive when
space is low on drive C, and mount it as C:\Program Files.

PS., this seems to be the only way to get the official Win2K backup to work
for
a CD or DVD.

Cheers

Rua
 
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