HD DVD ROM Drive?

[xpclient]

I just clean installed Windows Vista SP2 in a VMware Workstation 14 Virtual Machine. Usually I mount an ISZ image (Compressed ISO) on the host using Daemon Tools and then passthrough that mounted image to the VM. This has worked for Windows 95, NT4, 98, 2000, Me, XP, 7, 8.1. Daemon Tools doesn't emulate a DVD drive but a Blu-Ray/BD-ROM drive. But Windows Vista shows the drive as an "HD DVD ROM Drive" and won't let me read/access the contents? WHAT is this nonsense? 😆 I need help accessing a mounted drive in a guest OS! I am sure no Blu-Ray drive requires any special drivers. Why is it misrecognizing it as an HD DVD ROM Drive? 😆

[jaclaz]

Maybe you can try an alternative to Daemon Tools.

The requirement to use .isz files limit the choice, but ther are still at least a couple ones that can read them, I think gburner and yubsoft imgdrive support that.

AFAIK .isz is not really-really a compressed .iso (I mean it is a compressed .iso but it i not - unlike .iso a "standard" file format) so your mileage may vary.

jaclaz

[xpclient]

Yes thank you I got around it by mounting with a different tool, Virtual CloneDrive with another format.