0 Virtual Drives

Daemon Tools

It takes an image of a cd (a software copy) from your hard drive and makes it appear to the computer as if that image is an actual CD, running in an actual CD drive on your computer. What is really happening is that the tools create a logical drive and then read the image of the CD as it would be read by the computer if it was a CD.


The effects of this is that any CD like behaviour, such as autoplay, copy protection or requirements that the cd is in the drive in order to play some game are replicated/satisfied. Daemon Tools are often used for backups of CDs.

With DAEMON Tools you would receive up to 32 virtual SCSI drives and 2 virtual IDE drives that behave just like the “real” physical ones.


Key features ::

* creates *.iso and *.mds images;
* emulates up to 4 virtual CD/DVD drives;
* performs image mounting and unmounting;
* supports *.b5t, *.b6t, *.bwt, *.ccd, *.cdi, *.cue, *.nrg, *.pdi, *.isz;
* offers powerful command line interface.

Alcohol
Alcohol 120% can handle the creation of 31 virtual CD and DVD-ROMs, letting users play discs without needing the physical disc. Users can copy CDs and DVDs to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, and DVD+RW discs. The reading speed of a virtual CD-ROM is 200x. It supports normal CD, DVD, and CD RAW subchannel reading methods. The RAW reading method lets users emulate all CDs. Alcohol 120% supports numerous CD (CD-DA, CD+G, CD-ROM, CD-XA, VideoCD, Photo CD) and DVD (DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-Audio) formats. It also supports all current (ATAPI & SCSI) drives. The latest version adds two more profiles to the data type options and includes support for unusually formatted DVD+RW discs formatted by other software.