In reply to a post by 12eason:

Yeah, along with a list of previous mounts.

Sweet!!

Virtual Cd, been using it for years. but it is not free, it costs almost 30 of that strange Euro currency or almost 35 of that currsy called the Dollar that belongs is made in the u.s.a

Out of curiousty, would it make for a bad setup to run any ISOs from the same drive as the game installation (neither being the C: drive)?

I had a mind to just create the following:

G:\Games
G:\ISO

...and let the gaming commence. Just wondering if it will be a problem for the drive controller to handle that. Might it be best to pop the ISOs on the slowest hard drive (which is obviously much faster than any optical drive)?

it probably would be fine unless the hdd was been particurly slow eg. an old drive that filled up to the brim and fragmented. Any modern sata drive should handle that situation fine. It certianly is still better than reading of cd/dvd media itself.

In general, the game loads the data from the CD and then runs without it for much of the time so there's little interactivity. To check this, play the games from the CD as normal and note how much and when the CD is being accessed.
As for your copy protection, there are quite a few free/trial burning apps out there that will faithfully reproduce the original CD in ISO format. When you mount it, the CP is still there so I don't see how anyone has been starved of a living.