Virtual Clonedrive

This program is absolute junk I don't know how anyone uses it. You can't even do anything. I installed this program, and then clicked on the icon where it has 3 tabs, and you have the first tab that says options like how many drives and auto mount last image and stuff like that, another tab for languages and another for info which tells you which version you have installed. After you click ok, thats it, NOTHING happens, it just closes the window and that is that.You can't do a damn thing. I also clicked on the image in the system tray. Also nothing there is two options, settings and help. and the clicking the settings gives you the same crap as clicking on the item on the desktop and it does the same thing you say ok and then it closes and then nothing happens, this program is absolute CRAP.

Despite author's strange preferences for application logos, this tool is great - lightweight, reliable and easy to use.

Best alternative to Daemon-Tools - free for commercial use (unlike Daemon-Tools)

This program mounts ISO files perfectly. Never had a problem.

I can get it to mount an MDF just fine, but I do see some info suggesting it'd have problems with compressed mdf images. I did have to select "all files" for it to let me choose the image file, and contrary to most other image mounters I did not select the .mds file but instead the mdf file directly (which is consistent with its behavior of bin/cue). I'm guessing though this only works for single-session disks, I do not have any images of multi-session disks to test with.

It doesn't support mdf/mds and lacks RMPS emulation. Otherwise, Virtual CloneDrive really works better than DaemonTools Lite (more user friendly, doesn't cause performance issues).

I'm guessing this has improved greatly since the last comments here, since I've never had a problem with it, and works much better than DT in my opinion