MobaLiveCD is simplicity to use, all you have to do is run it (Run as administrator if you have UAC on) and either press “Run the LiveCD” and browse for the ISO image file, or click “Run the LiveUSB” and choose the letter of your flash drive.
Not only will it start bootable CD ISO images but with the last update to version 2.1 you can also launch a bootable USB flash drive which is useful when you’re testing if your multi boot or installation USB works before trying it for real.
The program itself is portable and only 1.5MB in size which is quite impressive. This is thanks to the small and open source virtual machine emulator QEMU. MobaLiveCD is a freeware tool that will run your Live or bootable disc images directly from within Windows with just a couple of clicks of your mouse. Being able to boot and test an ISO image with just a couple of clicks of your mouse can be a real time saver, here we show you 3 ways to do it. The trouble is using the above methods to boot the ISO image can still take time which isn’t ideal if for example you quickly want to try a number of the latest Linux distros.
These days disc images (ISOs) are everywhere and that allows you to do several things such as burn to CD like before, mount the ISO as a virtual drive, install the image onto USB flash drive, or even load it into virtualization software to test without leaving your desktop.
This not only took vast amounts of time waiting for the disc to burn but it also meant perhaps fiddling with the boot order in the BIOS and if you didn’t have any rewritable media, every burn would cost you money. However, it is not going to work with the Linux setup disks for some reason.Not too many years ago if you wanted to try out the latest Linux distro, test to see if a repair CD you downloaded worked or whether your custom made Windows install disc could boot, you had to burn the content to CD or DVD and then reboot your computer to try it out. NeoSmart EasyBCD allows you to boot from the ISO image files directly without having to create any real physical disks (whether CD/DVD or USB flash disks). Finally click on the Add Entry button to create the entry in the boot menu and after this you can restart Windows to try out booting from the ISO image.The second mode loads everything into memory before booting from the ISO image. These modes differ in the ways the ISO image file is loaded – the first mode loads everything from the disk and runs a little slower. Choose a Mode from Run from disk or Run from memory.Click on the folder button next to the Path field and locate the ISO image file.In my case, I am using the bootable Avira Rescue Disk, so I have changed the name accordingly. You can change the Name of the boot entry to anything you like.Select the ISO tab under the Portable/External Media section.Launch EasyBCD and click on the Add New Entry button.The community edition is free for the personal use and can be downloaded from.
Download and install EasyBCD on your system.You can use the NeoSmart EasyBCD utility for making some changes to the boot menu in the Windows and boot straight from the ISO image file located somewhere on your hard disk. But you do not have to burn these ISO images to a blank CD/DVD to be able to boot from them. There are many other types of bootable ISO images available like for the antivirus security solutions or for the disk erasing solutions. This method is frequently used to create bootable installation CD/DVD for the operating systems like Windows or Linux. This is useful as you can download ISO image files from the internet and then burn them on a blank CD/DVD using special programs like ImgBurn and have the duplicated copy of the original disk. An ISO image file is the true byte to byte copy of the contents of a CD or DVD.