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Rad Community Technical Discussion Boards (Computer Hardware + PC Software) >> PC Hardware + Software (except Cloning programs) >> Virtual Cd /DVD drive http://radified.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1227816871 Message started by ben_mott on Nov 27th, 2008 at 2:14pm |
Title: Virtual Cd /DVD drive Post by ben_mott on Nov 27th, 2008 at 2:14pm
Hello Again,
here is some how related useful information regarding ISO and mounting them etc more and more laptops now come without floppy drive and CD/DVD drive An old friend of mine who had bought a bridge game on a DVD was disappointed that he could not play it on his new 10” laptop without a DVD drive as after we installed it using a memory stick ,it kept asking to put the DVD in the DVD drive to do a CRC error check to find out if DVD was the original and not a copy. So I decided to research into it for a solution. The solution is that one should make an ISO of the DVD, using UltraISO http://www.ezbsystems.com , or imgBurn in read Mode http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download or the Free Alex Feinman ISO recorder http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm once you have created the ISO image of the DVD then you need to mount it. That is perform a trick of disgusing it as a DVD. There is a tiny Free program from Microsoft !!! called: WINXPvirtualCDcontrolPanel That will do this http://tinyurl.com/tyxx it is a zip file expand it and read the text file how to set its driver up. the above software free from Microsoft works OK but it is old and frankly a bit Amateurish (DIY) here is a more professional software from Swiss people of same subject. Virtual Clone Drive http://www.slysoft.com/en/download.html http://static.slysoft.com/SetupVirtualCloneDrive.exe but unfortunatly when you mount the image it is read only and you can not add ay thing to it not like imagex /mountrw the other Microsoft free utility. Ben :) |
Title: Re: Virtual Cd /DVD drive Post by Houdini on Nov 28th, 2008 at 2:29am
:) :) :) :) :) :)
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Title: Re: Virtual Cd /DVD drive Post by Pleonasm on Nov 28th, 2008 at 3:16pm
Some other options . . .
If you have Roxio Easy Media Creator, then it may be used to create a virtual CD/DVD drive. Or, if you have VMware Workstation, you can configure a virtual machine with a CD/DVD drive. |
Title: Re: Virtual Cd /DVD drive Post by ckcc on Nov 28th, 2008 at 6:07pm
magicdisc http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-magicdisc-overview.htm worked well for me on my kids system for games that didn't have no-cd cracks to enable them to play without having to insert and remove discs all the time. Helps keep the game discs in good shape.
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Title: Re: Virtual Cd /DVD drive Post by Megaton on Dec 8th, 2008 at 8:55am
I usually use Daemon Tools to mount the iso image as a virtual optical drive. Is the slysoft program any better? In what way? :)
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