Trouble installing from a mounted image.

So...uh...I had Adobe CS4 Master Collection I lost the disc(s) in a bizarre accident involving baking soda, the tree in the backyard, the alignment of Venus with Jupiter and my sister's left nostril.

Luckily for me, I had ripped an ISO for backup.

Now that I've reformatted my computer, I would like to reinstall the software. I tried Daemon Tools, which would let me go through the setup up until the actual copying of files onto my computer at which point it asks me to insert the disc (into my virtual drive, no less). I've tried with and without the emulations Daemon Tools provides.

After consulting with some geeks, I tried to hide the virtual drive using two different programs: hide-virtual-cd which didn't even work, and SD4 Sucks which worked, but prevented the setup from even opening.

Help please.

without knowing what ant-piracy doo-dahs are present, have you tried burning back to a CD?

No. Don't really want to go out of my way to grab a DVD

Are you installing it through Wine or are you installing on a Mac? If you're doing it on a Mac then you can drag everything out of the disk and setup from your desktop.

This is the Windows version of it.

I'm on Vista

thats your problem..
No jk, but uh Maybe call adobe, and tell them what happened.
I am sure you have some kinda verification, that can say you bought it right?

Uh, Windows can't mount discs on the fly only every other OS can do that. So I assume that you are using some 3rd party software to mount it. Try using a different program to mount it.

daemon tools is a CD emulator that mounts ISOs to a virtual CD drive

unfortunately, it's rather trivial for software under windows to determine if it's mounted in a real or virtual drive

Burn back to CD
almost guaranteed to succeed

Well, I figured it'd probably come to that.

What other software is there out there that's likely to work?

Burning it back to CD is an "when all else fails" case.

The GIMP & Inkscape rivals anything Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator can do
apart from seriously high end stuff

Gimp for raster image editing
Inkscape for vector graphics

Except Photoshop and Illustrator does everything better.

Use Alcohol 120%, it mounts the disc correctly. Otherwise, mount the disc in daemon tools, move all the files on the disc to your harddrive and run them from there.

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Except Photoshop and Illustrator does everything better.

Use Alcohol 120%, it mounts the disc correctly. Otherwise, mount the disc in daemon tools, move all the files on the disc to your harddrive and run them from there.

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Need to get me Illustrator.

-cough if anyone has keygen executable for cs4 pm me cough-

Coincidentally, I just installed Alcohol 120% on a whim. It's still not working, but this seems like a rather complex program. Are there any specific settings I should set?

Also, for some reason, all the check boxes under "Extra Emulation" are greyed out. What's up with that?

What I did to re-install spore (which I unfortunately had lost, but also had an ISO):
I extracted the ISO with WinRar, looked for the main setup, ran it and off I was :)

I never understood all the hassle with drivers. This is much easier :o

I use PowerISO, though I've only actually used it once. Worked flawlessly.

Did you try extracting the files yet, Kushna? It should work.

I tried extracting. Setup won't even open.

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Originally Posted by Marvo

Except Photoshop and Illustrator does everything better.

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That's not true. I don't work with SVGs, so I can't comment on Illustrator vs. Inkscape, but Photoshop certainly doesn't do everything better than the GIMP. I find Photoshop's UI to be more intuitive because I learned it first, but obviously me not having read the Gimp manual isn't a reason as to why Photoshop is superior. The GIMP is much better than Photoshop for scripting, and Photoshop has some presets that the GIMP doesn't. It's really a tossup, and when you factor in the price tag, the GIMP is a no-brainer unless you need more than 8-bit color support.