Can WinImage work in Vista?

[alexBB]

Hi there,

It seems I am getting some important and refreshing ideas in this forum. I need to open up many ISO files of mine and am looking for the right package. So far I had bad luck. DAEMON Tools and MagicDisk turned out to be malware. Had to roll my system back to preinstallation points. Now I downloaded WinImage by Gilles Vollant. It seems to be a trustworthy software. I was about to pay $60 for WinImage Pro and found that they do not mention Vista at all. The website says: Windows XP (30) Whatever 30 means. I presume it is 32 bit.

Could anyone tell me if they had experience with running and extracting ISO images with WinImage in Vista Ultimate?

The community Vista forum Vista.General is full of disgruntled Vista users who cannot run their favorite software in Vista. I myself had a major headache with running my VFP9 applications written in XP platform. Just gave up and rewrote most of them in C# 2.0.Ttook about 2 months.

Any answer will be very much appreciated.

[spacesurfer]

yes!

i haven't had a problem.

if you do, try running it under compatibiity mode.

[alexBB]

yes!

i haven't had a problem.

if you do, try running it under compatibiity mode.

Thank you very much but could you be more specific: Have YOU ever HAD to run in under compatibility mode? What Vista is yours?

All these precious snippets are very important. They save a lot of time.

[geezery]

Here is some freeware if you don't mind. Both works in Vista 32bit also. The magiciso also supports 64bit vista, but it a bit tricky to install.

http://www.elby.ch/fun/software/index.html

http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-mag...sc-overview.htm

Edited December 28, 2007 by geezery

[alexBB]

Here is some freeware if you don't mind. Both works in Vista 32bit also. The magiciso also supports 64bit vista, but it a bit tricky to install.

http://www.elby.ch/fun/software/index.html

http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-mag...sc-overview.htm

MagicISO is a malware. I downloaded it and innstalled. It took my computer over, changed my Inernet Explorer home Page with crap offering to shop throu them. You must be one of the owners of the website. I assume the first one is a clone in disguise.

The folder was absolutely set in cement. There was no way for me to delete it. It said that the ownership was inherited and I had to sever the inheritance. In fact in the Security window it said: <not inherited>. There was a TrustedInstaller which could not be removed from the security window. There was also so called "Original Owner" of unknow identity. I had no such characters among my users or groups.

I am wondering how you guys do it. Can you share your criminal ways? Wrrite a book: "How I beat MS." You will make lots of money.

I had extremely hard time getting rid of you. Had to roll the system back to preinstall point. Checked my registry thru and thru. Some of your poison may still be there, hopefully decaying.

I suspect some of you guys must be former MS employees, perhaps even current. How does it feel living double life? Otherwise how one can explain that you can beat the system so easily. A lot of internal knowledge is a prerequisite. You probably even did Vista design with this in view, leaving back doors, writing undocumented classes, etc.

If you do not want to write a book on your craft, I can write your biography. but you will have to submit to a lot of psychoanalysis.

Edited December 29, 2007 by alexBB

[jaclaz]

alexBB, take it easy, man , I am sure geezery only tried to help.

Before going around accusing people to be criminals, it would be a good idea to think over it a little and check the history of posts of a member.

The Elby program is actually quite good.

If you want a good driver for .ISO images, try IMDISK, though NT/2K/XP/2003, it appears to work correctly under Vista:

http://www.boot-land.net/forums/ImDisk-f59.html

http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html#ImDisk

I guess that you are the same alexBB that posted here:

http://forum.winimage.com/viewtopic.php?t=3023

http://forum.winimage.com/viewtopic.php?t=3024

I am crosslinking them to here.

jaclaz

[alexBB]

alexBB, take it easy, man , I am sure geezery only tried to help.

Before going around accusing people to be criminals, it would be a good idea to think over it a little and check the history of posts of a member.

The Elby program is actually quite good.

If you want a good driver for .ISO images, try IMDISK, though NT/2K/XP/2003, it appears to work correctly under Vista:

http://www.boot-land.net/forums/ImDisk-f59.html

http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html#ImDisk

I guess that you are the same alexBB that posted here:

http://forum.winimage.com/viewtopic.php?t=3023

http://forum.winimage.com/viewtopic.php?t=3024

I am crosslinking them to here.

jaclaz

Thank you, jaclaz. That was me. MagicISO (a.k.a MadicDisk) is a malware. I have no experience with the other one, Elby, I just made a sweeping assumption.

You appear to be knowledgeable. I want to run another side issue by you.

I purchased two WD MyBooks for my systems. They are formatted with FAT32. I reformatted them with NTFS with file compression enabled. This morning I tried to save an image of one of my systems with Windows Vista Backup and Restore GUI and it refused to to it because the "disk is compressed." I am now reformatting it with NTFS without compression.

BTW before I tried to use the same API (Vista's) to save a system image on FAT32 disk and it refused that media as well on the grounds that it was not NTFS.

I guess my question is: If I get one of the APIs you recommend do I have to uncompress my second MyBook?

How do they all handle compression/uncompression issue?

Thanks.

BTW that website is awesome! There is so much good stuff in there. A treasure trough! Thanks again.

Happy New Year.

Edited December 29, 2007 by alexBB

[geezery]

I checked the MagicIso 32bit installer with TotalUninstall and it is clean from malware. I think you have got the malware from somewhere else. My intention was not to promote either of the software that I mentioned earlier. I just tried to help you with your issue. I suggest you to scan your system with Spybot S&D or something that can handle spywares out of your machine and then try to install MagicIso. I have used it for a long time without any issues or malware. I can send you the installation log if you want to investigate it further.

Actually both MagicISO installers (32bit and x64) are both same. The x64 installation just installs the x64 driver.

About the FS's.

There is a file size limitation in the FAT32 file system. (4GB MAX)

Microsoft Article

I don't know about the NTFS compression, but I wouldn't use such compressions even that NTFS has much more efficient compression than in FAT32.

[jaclaz]

I purchased two WD MyBooks for my systems. They are formatted with FAT32. I reformatted them with NTFS with file compression enabled. This morning I tried to save an image of one of my systems with Windows Vista Backup and Restore GUI and it refused to to it because the "disk is compressed." I am now reformatting it with NTFS without compression.

BTW before I tried to use the same API (Vista's) to save a system image on FAT32 disk and it refused that media as well on the grounds that it was not NTFS.

I guess my question is: If I get one of the APIs you recommend do I have to uncompress my second MyBook?

I am sorry but I really have no idea how Backup and Restore work in Vista, judging from the *ahem* quality and number of restrictions of previous MS Backup apps, I guess that you shold use other third party apps, here is a thread where a few are listed:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=99702

jaclaz