ISO image mounting problems under Windows 8 Pro

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Whenever I try to mount ISO with the inbuilt mounting of Windows 8 Pro it returns 'Couldn't mount file' 'Sorry there was a problem mounting the file' or 'The disc image file is corrupted'.

In some instances the file gets mounted nevertheless, but to discover it, I have to look at Computer where all drives are shown.

In either instances, whenever I drop an ISO, which contains audio from SACD or other media, in J River Media Center's 'Playing Now' field, it shows every single track of the disc image file and plays them nicely. So it does, even when burnt onto a DVD+R So, obviously, the ISOs are healthy and the problem should with Windows...

I would be glad to hear from you on the matter.

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Anonymous

The file needs to be renamed to .exe on the Microsoft site. It's an executable, not an ISO

(Visio 2013 64 bit English)

ok guys, I FOUND THE SOLUTION by accident.

Here is how to fix the problem (at least it worked right away when i did it, so try it!)

RIGHT-CLICK the image file in question (.IMG, .ISO, etc...) and choose a default program to open with. WIndows ABSOLUTELY NEEDS TO BE the DEFAULT program to open image files. There is a unreported bug about Windows 8 explorer not being the default , therein not opening a valid, uncorrupted image file. YOU MUST set Windows Explorer as the default in order to mount image files as a virtual DVD drive in WIndows 8.

Thats all, and I hope that this actually works for you. thanks! and if it works, please mark this as helpful to show your appreciation, since there is no kudos or thanks button. :D

Here what I did, eject SD card (you don't have to take it out of the computer). Try to mount again. I did this and it worked perfectly.

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2013-09-12T23:27:08+00:00

The SD Card being present was my problem too. I just changed the drive letter and it worked like a charm.

Same issue here again on my Surface Pro. I had an SD card as D:\ drive. I moved it to another drive letter (in my case S:), and now I can mount ISO images without any issue. The ISO's mount to D:, E:, F:\ etc in that consecutive order.

Cheers for the find guys!
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Anonymous

2013-04-25T01:53:10+00:00

Thanks for posting this - I tried everything and then saw your post so took my camera's memory card out and then it worked!
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Anonymous

2013-04-15T08:23:34+00:00

Solution, at least here. Use regedit to set defaults for *.iso to explorer.exe, for current user in software Microsoft windows currentversion explorer fileexts

In our case, use of various other iso editors apparently confused the system...context menu /right click solutions did not help, but regedit and reboot did.

In my case, the Mount worked fine, the iso's showed as yet another (virtual) dvd drive, but the system through the error anyway, and the user had to know to ignore it and to look for that virtual drive. no longer, at least here.
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Anonymous

2013-03-14T01:52:10+00:00

You're having problems with OfficeProfessionalPlus_x64_en-us.img or another Microsoft Office Professional trial file?

Open the file with 7Zip (WinZip probably works, too) or rename from .imgto .zip.

.img was a very poor choice of file extension.
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