What does it mean to "mount CDs"?

Question

Do you know of any free or free trial programs I can use in order to do so?

Answer 1

We need to be precise here; do you mean "mount a physical CD" or "mount a CD image"?



Most OS nowadays will automatically mount physical CDs when they are inserted to the CD Drive. Mounting in this sense basically making the CD drive accessible with a file explorer (e.g. Windows Explorer, Nautilus, etc). If for some reason or another this automounting does not work, you can use the mount program from command line.



Mounting a CD image is a different thing. CD image is basically a dump of what CD burners will write to a CD into a file. This file can be "mount"ed with special program that will emulate a CD drive and allow the CD image to be used like a CD. A popular program to mount a CD image is Daemon Tools in Windows. Linux (and possibly Mac) can use the loopback device and the mount program from command line, just mount -o loop /path/to/cd/image /mnt/ablankfolder.

Answer 2

Hi,



If you have a rewritable CD and have burned files to it at different times, then each time you did this a new Joilette (or volume) was created on the CD.



To be able to access the different Joilettes on the CD you need to mount the CD.



To do that, insert CD in ROM Drive, and close tray. After a few seconds, right click on the Cd-ROM icon and select Mount, then select the Joilette (volume) you want to view.



Regards,



TgTips

Answer 3

You have a CD and a CD Drive on your computer. Mounting the CD means to put it in the drive so you can access the data on it.