

If anything happens to the individual songs or movie files you can simply mount the ISO onto a virtual disc drive and restore it. By ripping them to ISO images you can store a perfect backup of all your movies and music on a hard drive that costs about the same as a couple media cabinets from Amazon. If you have a lot of music and movies sitting on optical media then you know how much space it consumes.

You can use ISO images to store backups of your optical media on cheaper storage and then read them later. Scratches, oil from your hands, dirt/dust, and other factors cause the media to deteriorate over time. Optical media was not meant to last forever. There are several reasons why you might want to create and then read from an ISO image of your media. This file can then be accessed by software to create a “virtual” optical drive as if you had the disc already in the tray.īefore we get into how to mount ISO images let’s first look at why you would want one and briefly how to create one. ISO images can be used to make full backups of your CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Ray discs and store them in a single file on your computer similar to how a compressed “Zip” file works.
