Virtual Drives

Information

RocketLauncher supports all the popular CLI-supported virtual drive applications out there for windows. It is your choice to use what you want, but be careful to pick one that can mount the image extension types you use. Some do not support cue and that is usually a requirement in this hobby as many sets use them.

Supported Virtual Drive Applications

Alcohol

Supported Extensions:

b5t,b6t,bin,bwt,ccd,cdi,cue,iso,isz,mds,mdx,nrg,pdi

Installation Notes:

1. Needs to be a registered copy otherwise you will get a nag screen on each use
2. When installing, leave checkbox enabled "Add Alcohol Virtual Drive at first run"
3. Start Alcohol and goto View -> Options -> General. Uncheck all the options there.
4. In RocketLauncherUI, set General Settings -> Third Party -> Virtual Drive Path to point to AxCmd.exe
5. In RocketLauncherUI, set General Settings -> Third Party -> Virtual Drive Drive Letter to match your virtual drive letter.

Daemon Tools 4

Supported Extensions:

ape,b5t,b6t,bin,bwt,ccd,cdi,cue,flac,iso,isz,mds,mdx,nrg

Installation Notes:

1. Have only tested the Lite version
2. If running Windows 10, do NOT use a scsi drive as there are no drivers for scsi in Windows 10. Only use a DT drive. [1]

Daemon Tools 5

Supported Extensions:

ape,b5t,b6t,bin,bwt,ccd,cdi,cue,flac,iso,isz,mds,mdx,nrg

Installation Notes:

1. Have only tested the Lite version
2. When installing, click the "Proceed with free licenese" blue link to install, not the Personal License or Commercial License options.
3. Be sure to cancel all external components that try to install alongside DT.
4. It's a good idea to disable checking for updates and sending anonymous statistics in DT's options.
5. In RocketLauncherUI, set General Settings -> Third Party -> Virtual Drive Path to point to DTLite.exe
6. In RocketLauncherUI, set General Settings -> Third Party -> Virtual Drive Drive Letter to match your virtual drive letter.
7. I've found DT5 can be a little slow unmounting images, causing RL to get hung up for a few extra seconds waiting for the DTLite.exe to close.

Daemon Tools 10

Supported Extensions:

ape,b5t,b6t,bwt,ccd,cdi,cue,flac,iscsi,iso,isz,mds,mdx,nrg,tc,vdh,vdi,vmdk,wav,zip

Installation Notes:

1. Must point your Virtual Drive Path to DTAgent.exe as this is the executable that supports CLI used by RocketLauncher.
2. Have only tested the Lite version but has been reported Pro works fine as well
3. Windows 10 users may want to use this as the driver required to run a virtual scsi drive will install fine.
4. If your Lite version expires, you will get a 30-second delay when mounting your images. RocketLauncher will not be aware of this and only report this 30 seconds in your log. Nothing you can do about this other than purchase DT.

MagicISO (MagicDisc)

Supported Extensions:

000,bin,bwi,bwt,c2d,ccd,cdi,cif,dao,ima,img,iso,md1,mdf,mds,nrg,p01,pdi,tao,uif,vaporcd,vc4,vcd,vdi,xa

Installation Notes:

1. Could not get this to work in Windows 8.1. It might only support up to Windows 8.
2. In RocketLauncherUI, set General Settings -> Third Party -> Virtual Drive Path to point to miso.exe.

PowerISO

Supported Extensions:

ashdisc,b5i,bin,bwi,c2d,cdi,cif,cue,daa,fcd,gi,img,iso,lcd,mdf,mds,ncd,nrg,p01,pdi,pxi,vcd

Installation Notes:

1. Computer needs to be restarted after installing PowerISO
2. In PowerISO, goto Options -> Configuration. Then click the Virtual Drive tab. Set number of virtual drives to 1.
3. For your 1 virtual drive in the same window above, click Drive 0 in the letter assignment box and give it your preferred drive letter. It is safe to close PowerISO now.
4. In RocketLauncherUI, set General Settings -> Third Party -> Virtual Drive Path to point to piso.exe, not PowerISO.exe. (piso.exe is the CLI application)
5. In RocketLauncherUI, set General Settings -> Third Party -> Virtual Drive Drive Letter to match what you set your virtual drive letter to above.

Virtual CD

Supported Extensions:

b5i,bin,bwi,c2d,img,iso,mdf,nrg,vc4,xmf

Installation Notes:

1. During installation, you may want to select the customize option and uncheck many of the additional Programs it tries to install. They are not bad, but unnecessary for simple mounting and unmounting.
2. In RocketLauncherUI, set General Settings -> Third Party -> Virtual Drive Path to point to vc10cmd.exe.

Virtual CloneDrive

Supported Extensions:

bin,ccd,cdi,dvd,img,iso,udf

Installation Notes:

1. In RocketLauncherUI, set General Settings -> Third Party -> Virtual Drive Path to point to VCDMount.exe
2. Manually run VCDPrefs.exe first so the registry keys are created for you. RocketLauncher will do this for you if you forget, but don't rely on it.

Unsupported Virtual Drive Applications

UltraISO

Reason:

There does not appear to be support for mounting and unmounting an image via CLI. The only thing that exists is to build an iso through CLI, not simple mounting and unmounting