ImDisk doesn't mount BIN/CUE images
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Recently I've been in the need of mounting images of some old CDs which don't work anymore. I found ImDisk Toolkit and I think it's awesome. Most of my files are ISO or even more ancient floppy images, but a couple are in BIN/CUE format, and ImDisk doesn't recognize them at all. They're in binary mode, 2352 bytes per sector. I've tried removing the extra bytes to have 2048 bytes sectors, but nothing. Tried to convert them to ISO with Open ISO converter, but nothing either. However the images are good, as for example Daemon Tools can mount them properly without any trouble.
With the images mounted with DT, I've made ISO images so I'm getting rid of the BIN/CUE, so my problem is solved, but I thought of telling you about this.
I only have these two BIN/CUE images to test, but I'd find very strange that ImDisk doesn't support such a popular format. Is this a limitation of how the images were created? Or something related to ImDisk?
I have several bin/cue image files from different origins, with 2352 bytes per sector, and I just checked: they can be mounted with MountImg. Of course, the GUI uses DiscUtilsDevio to deal with this format (wich means that it is properly installed and you have .NET 4 installed as well), but it works well.
If you select the .bin file with MountImg, it should work. And if it's already the case, then I don't see where could be the issue.
what about multitrack CUE sheets like this?
Ditto.
I just ran into this problem today while trying to mount such a CD:
FILE "cd.bin" BINARY
TRACK 01 MODE1/2352
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
INDEX 01 47:07:55
TRACK 03 AUDIO
INDEX 01 49:11:54
TRACK 04 AUDIO
INDEX 01 51:31:25
TRACK 05 AUDIO
INDEX 01 54:02:61
TRACK 06 AUDIO
INDEX 01 56:27:55
TRACK 07 AUDIO
INDEX 01 58:54:05
ImDisk does not like it. If I mount the CUE, it throws an error. If I mount the BIN, it mounts, but the CD is garbage and shows as an unformatted disk.