Windows mount folder as cd

Asked 10 years, 2 months ago. Active 7 years, 4 months ago. Viewed 9k times. Improve this question. Community Bot 1. Jeroen Wiert Pluimers Jeroen Wiert Pluimers 2, 10 10 gold badges 40 40 silver badges 55 55 bronze badges. If no better solutions are found: Create an iso image and mount that either directly in VMware or eg. I don't think you can. Anyway you cannot boot from a folder since you cannot mark it as bootable. Jens I thought about that; do you know if it is possible to make an ISO "redirect" that in fact points to files in stead of a binary image?

You would have to do some hacks with shadow copies or such to have a stable image In the interface, click on the drop down menu below and select the Drive letter which you would like to give to your virtual drive.

Now, click on the tiny magnifying glass icon on the bottom right corner of the window and select folder which you would like to mount as a drive. Check the checkbox below, if you would like the PC to always mount the specified folder as drive whenever you startup. It will be removed from the interface, and you will have to go through the same process again to add. You can also mount multiple folders using this tool.

Just repeat the process and select a new folder each time to mount it as a Virtual drive. If you have any questions or would like to add another method to mount a folder as a drive, let us know in the comments below. Filed in Computers. Read more about Windows.

Ask Question. Asked 9 years ago. Active 3 years, 3 months ago. Viewed 28k times. Improve this question. Community Bot 1. Tyilo Tyilo 2, 7 7 gold badges 38 38 silver badges 58 58 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. I tried it with a CD and it worked for me. It does not work for everything though. Improve this answer. Jeff F. Ray Cathode Ray Cathode 31 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges.

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