Can I mount imgburn cue/bin rip of CD to a drive letter in Windows 10?

[Muse]

Yes, I have blank CDRs, CDRWs too, but my audio CD players won't play CDRWs burnt with CD audio and I don't want to devote a CDR because in some/many cases I won't want the disk after listening to it a time or two. I have some imgburn cue/bin file rips of audio CDs and I'd like to basically audition them by mounting them to a drive letter on Windows 10 computers (or Windows 7 possibly). Is there a way I can do that? With freeware?

 

[mxnerd]

CloneDrive

https://www.elby.ch/en/products/vcd.html

 

[Muse]

CloneDrive

https://www.elby.ch/en/products/vcd.html

Thanks. I just installed on this Win10 64fit laptop and the installation seemed to go fine but when I try to mount a BIN it fails. The new drive letter appears but I get messages like "The directory name is invalid" or:

Windows can't access this disc

The disc might be corrupt. Make sure that the disc uses a format that windows recognizes. If the disc is unformatted, you need to format it before using it.

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[mxnerd]

I have used CloneDrive for a long long time, but I always use ISO file for software installation but I never rip any media CD/DVD so I don't use any CUE/BIN format. I read the description of CloneDrive and it says it support BIN format so I assume it works.

Try BIN to ISO converters?

https://helpdeskgeek.com/free-tools-review/how-to-convert-bin-to-iso/

Or try CloneDrive alternatives.

https://alternativeto.net/software/virtual-clonedrive/

 

[mxnerd]

It also could be that CloneDrive's drive letter conflict with existing drives?

I always change CloneDrive's drive letter to V: using Windows's Disk Management so I know it's a virtual drive.

 

[Muse]

It also could be that CloneDrive's drive letter conflict with existing drives?

I always change CloneDrive's drive letter to V: using Windows's Disk Management so I know it's a virtual drive.

Yeah, I could do that. I use V for my Video NAS partition, I could use some other letter. Doesn't look like a conflict, though. My DVD drive is F:. CloneDrive has grabbed E:.

 

[ch33zw1z]

It's been a long time since ive used bin/cue. Last time I mounted one, I think it was alcohol 120 software.

 

[Dahak]

Daemon Tools should do it as well, but Win10 afaik does not have native bin/cue support so that would be why its not working
you would have to use one of the other tools or convert it to iso which is supported natively

 

[Muse]

Daemon Tools should do it as well, but Win10 afaik does not have native bin/cue support so that would be why its not working
you would have to use one of the other tools or convert it to iso which is supported natively

Hmm. I'm intending to go back to Win7 on that laptop. Maybe I'll be OK then with the Bin/Cue?

 

[Dahak]

Hmm. I'm intending to go back to Win7 on that laptop. Maybe I'll be OK then with the Bin/Cue?

Not for native support, you will still need a virtual cd program to mount it. Win 7 does not even have iso mounting support. That was added in Win8 and newer

 

[Muse]

I'm wondering...

1. Can I convert my BIN/CUE rips to ISOs?

Edit: Evidently, I can create ISO rips using imgburn, so I'll do that in the future and be able to use CloneDrive with those?

 

[Dahak]

I'm wondering...

1. Can I convert my BIN/CUE rips to ISOs?

Edit: Evidently, I can create ISO rips using imgburn, so I'll do that in the future and be able to use CloneDrive with those?

Yep, and if going forward you wont even need to use clonedrive as the os (win8 +) will have native iso mounting

 

[Muse]

Yep, and if going forward you wont even need to use clonedrive as the os (win8 +) will have native iso mounting

Never done it, I'll see how it goes.

Now, can I convert my Bin/Cue rips to ISOs?

 

[MTDEW]

Just in case you do need it, this program will allow you to mount bin/cue files on Win7 and Win10. (ive used it)
http://wincdemu.sysprogs.org/download/