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how to make a usb drive be recognised as a CD/DVD drive?

Discussion in 'Computers & Modding' started by captain james, Apr 15, 2010.

  1. captain james

    captain james Well-Known Member

    is there any way i could get a USB drive be recognised as a CD/DVD rom?
    or a way to make a iso run from a USB drive when inserted into a computer?
    thanks
    james
     
    captain james, Apr 15, 2010
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  2. ace1o1

    ace1o1 Well-Known Member

    Well, you can use Alcohol 52% to make an ISO to run on a computer.

    It can run off of a flashdrive as well.

    http://www.free-downloads.net/programs/Alcohol_52__Free_Edition
     
    ace1o1, Apr 15, 2010
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  3. timmy1991

    timmy1991 Well-Known Member

    you can put an iso on a flash drive and mount it with daemon tools
     
    timmy1991, Apr 17, 2010
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  4. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    no you cannot change the device type.
     
    Loonylion, Apr 17, 2010
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  5. capncanuck

    capncanuck New Member

    There should be away to imitate those USB CD/DVD drives using an external HDD and run a script with autorun. You might need to find/write a script that uses a driver to do this.
     
    capncanuck, Jun 2, 2010
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  6. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    hard disks can have autoruns but there needs to be a registry change on the computer to actually use them.
     
    Loonylion, Jun 2, 2010
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  7. timmy1991

    timmy1991 Well-Known Member

    it would be much easier to mount the iso from the usb drive...
    Unless of course you wanted to make it a bootable disk, then you would have to use some program that I can't remember.
     
    timmy1991, Jun 2, 2010
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