This article presents a list of the best ISO mounters for Windows, including WinArchiver Virtual Drive, WinCDEmu, Daemon Tools Lite, Gizmo Drive, ImDisk Toolkit, Power ISO, Virtual CloneDrive, ISO Workshop, OSFMount, DVDFab, gBurner Virtual Drive, and AcetoneISO.
WinArchiver Virtual Drive is lightweight and adds a mount option on the right-click menu. WinCDEmu is easy to use and supports multiple image file formats, while Daemon Tools Lite is one of the most popular and versatile ISO mounters for Windows.
Gizmo Drive is top-rated and allows users to create password-protected hard drive images, and ImDisk Toolkit is free and open-source and provides better control over image mounting than most alternatives.
Power ISO is a top-rated image file processing tool, and Virtual CloneDrive supports almost all major image file formats and allows users to create unlimited virtual hard drives.
ISO Workshop is a free and easy-to-use desktop application for mounting ISO files on Windows, while OSFMount is a great pick for mounting local disk image files, analyzing them with PassMark OSForensics, and mounting an ISO file as read-only.
DVDFab is a great virtual DVD/Blu-ray emulator for Windows, and gBurner Virtual Drive is a free tool for creating and managing virtual CD/DVD drives that supports a wide range of image file formats.
AcetoneISO is a lightweight program similar to gBurner Virtual Drive that can convert images to ISO or extract their contents to a folder, encrypt, compress, and split any type of image.
All ISO Mounters listed in the article were safe to use, and users should download them from official websites or trusted sources. Some ISO mounters can burn ISO files or create bootable ISO files like Windows bootable disks.
Most tools listed in the article have a free version that offers limited features, and almost all are fully compatible with Windows 10 and 11, running on older versions of Windows, such as Windows 7/8 or XP.
With these ISO mounters, users can easily manage all their image files on Windows, and if they know of any other software, they can share it in the comment box below.