Yesallright Posted October 27, 2013 Posted October 27, 2013 (edited) Hello everyone. Let's say I have the SPTD driver installed on Win 7, and a XP installation on VMware Player. Can I resort to XP to use my optical drives without SPTD's detrimental effect, or am I fooling myself? Edited October 27, 2013 by Yesallright
Ch3vr0n Posted October 28, 2013 Posted October 28, 2013 If the sptd filter is present on w7 then it can affect the virtual XP. As XP will access the drives through w7. So yes, you're fooling yourself. Use imgburns "load driver filter order" and get rid of it in the filter stack. It serves absolutely no purpose but slowing drives down. There's a reason imgburn warns about it in the log window.
Yesallright Posted October 28, 2013 Author Posted October 28, 2013 (edited) Thanks. I guess an altervative would be to use SPTD software on the virtual machine. That wouldn't affect the host machine... right? Edited October 28, 2013 by Yesallright
Ch3vr0n Posted October 29, 2013 Posted October 29, 2013 Why use that crappy daemon tools anyway, all it does is clutter up your system. Just grab "virtual clone drive" from the slysoft site. May not support that many formats but it doesn't install crappy filters like that or similar.
Yesallright Posted October 30, 2013 Author Posted October 30, 2013 Thanks, I know about VCD and it's always my preferred virtual drive. But as you know, there are few certain things it cannot do. Guess the ideal way to have the best of both worlds, is to isolate SPTD etc. on a virtual machine.
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