DAEMON Tools Lite
Emulates virtual CD/DVD drives

Most popular product that offers easy tools for making simple disc image files and emulating virtual CD/DVD drives.

Basic backing up functionality
Make .iso, *.mds/*.mdf and *.mdx images of CD/DVD/Blu-ray discs
Protect images with password
Compress and split your images
Manage your Image Collection

Media devices virtualization
Create up to 4 virtual devices to mount several images simultaneously
Customize virtual drives: change a drive letter, DVD region, etc
Mount *.mdx, *.mds/*.mdf, *.iso, *.b5t, *.b6t, *.bwt, *.ccd, *.cdi, *.cue, *.nrg, *.pdi, *.isz disc images to a virtual drive

Simple user interface with basic system integration
Get quick access to all functionalities via program icon in the System Tray
Use File Associations to mount images right from Windows Explorer
Use powerful Command Line Interface for automation purposes
Perform basic actions via handy DAEMON Tools Gadget on Windows Desktop

Last Updated 24 January 2010
Win XP/Vista/7

Gizmo Drive
Create quick and user friendly installers for Windows

Gizmo Drive is a useful tool that serves two main purposes: virtual CD-ROM drive (ISO/IMG files) and encrypted, virtual hard drive.

Protect your vital files from spyware by seamlessly encrypting your data on a virtual hard disk. Virtual drives appear and function like a regular hard disk, in Windows.

Features:
Mount ISO, BIN, CUE, NRG files to a virtual CD-ROM drive
Mount VHD files, used with Microsoft Virtual PC
Mount password protected images to a virtual hard drive
Encrypt HD images using a passphrase
Protect vital files from hackers using encrypted HD images
Mount IMG files to a virtual drive
Mount and unmount files from the Windows Shell
Mount and unmount files from the command line
Support for compression and sparse HD images

Last Updated 20 January 2010
Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7

ISODisk
Powerful tool to mount and create ISO disk images

ISODisk is a FREE and powerful ISO disk image file tool, allows you to create virtual CD/DVD driver up to 20 drivers, mount an .ISO disk image and access the files on it as if it were burned to CD or DVD. This free program can quickly create ISO image file from CD/DVD-ROM, with ISODisk, you don't need install any other virtual drive software. Once you map the archive to a virtual drive, you can be able to view the contents in Windows Explorer.

ISODisk's Features

Mount ISO image files to as an internal virtual CD/DVD device.
Can mount ISO image on Local Area Network.
Can create virtual CD/DVD driver up to 20 drivers.
Quickly create ISO file from CD/DVD-ROM.
Very easy to use.

Win 2000/XP/ME/98/2003/Vista

Virtual CloneDrive
Allows you to run CD/DVD applications from the hard disk

Virtual CloneDrive allows you to run CD/DVD applications from the hard disk no more need for physical CD/DVD drives or the actual CD/DVD media.

It works like daemon-tools or Alcohol 120% but only virtual drive for the Images below .ccd; .dvd; .img; .iso; .udf. It is very easy to use

Win 98/ME/2000/XP

WinArchiver Virtual Drive
A free Virtual CD/DVD ROM utility

WinArchiver Virtual Drive is a free Virtual CD/DVD ROM utility. It can mount not only all popular CD/DVD image files, but also all popular archives. You can run programs or access the files from a virtual drive without original cd/dvd discs. The virtual drive works 200x faster than traditional cd/dvd rom drive.

WinArchiver Virtual Drive can mount ZIP, RAR, 7Z, and other archives as virtual drive instantly. It provides a more convenient and faster way to access files in archives. You can mount an archive as a virtual drive, then access files in the archive through the virtual drive. With this feature, you don´t need unpack archives before open files in archive, which can help you save lots of time.

Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7

WinCDEmu
An open-source software that allows mounting CD/DVD images

WinCDEmu is an open-source software that allows mounting CD/DVD images by clicking at the image files in Windows Explorer. It supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, is open-source, and completely freeware.

Win XP/Vista/7

StarWind Virtual CD
Ultra-Fast Virtual CD/DVD/Blu-Ray Drive Emulator

Virtual CD creates a virtual DVD-ROM drive locally to extend your computing infrastructure. A Virtual DVD-ROM emulation allows you to use virtual optical drives when and where you need them.You can create an ISO or MDS image from your CD/DVD or Blu-Ray/HD-DVD drive with any disk grabbing utility and save it to your hard drive.

Whenever you need to read data or run applications from that image, just mount it as a virtual DVD-ROM drive in Virtual CD. The image will appear as a new optical drive to your system. It can then be used as if it were a local DVD-ROM drive

Win 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7

Phantom CD
Mount your CD/DVD image files as virtual CD/DVD disc

Phantom CD is a virtual CD/DVD/Blu-ray emulator. Mount your CD/DVD/Blu-ray image files as virtual CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc with Phantom CD.

Use disc images for your CD, DVD and Blu-ray backup. Replace your physical discs to avoid wear and tear on your optical drive, and to avoid disc problems resulted from heat, scratch, and dirt. Enjoy reading speed up to 200 times faster than a physical disc, allowing your application and games to start and run faster.

Avoid burning new CD's every few years

Writable optical discs like CD-R/RW, DVD+-R/RW and Blu-ray BD-RE have a life span of two to five years. They have a recording surface consisting of a layer of dye that can be modified by heat. The degradation process can result in the data "shifting" on the surface and thus becoming unreadable to the laser beam.

To avoid burning your discs every few years, copy the CD, DVD or Blu-ray discs to ISO or BIN/CUE disc images to your hard drive.

Hard drives have their limitations too. However, it is much easier and faster to copy dozens or even hundreds of disc image files to a new hard drive than to burn dozens of new CD's or DVD's.

Easier to manage

How many CD's and DVD's do you have?

Our collection gets bigger and bigger, but we are not getting more organized. We leave the discs on the desk, exposing them for scratches. We pile them up or put them in the wrong boxes. It is never easy to find the right disc when you need it.

Save them as disc images. Organize them on your hard drive. It is easier to organize, and easier to find.

Faster

While the speed of computer processor still doubles every two years, we still have to suffer through the slow reading speed of the optical drives. They spin and buzz, and finally open the files we want. Want to open the next file? That's another round of waiting.

Virtual discs give you up to 200 times the speed of an optical drive. Openning a file on a virtual disc is no different from openning a file on the hard drive.

Last Updated 22 April 2010
Win XP/Vista/7

TotalMounter
An advanced and powerful virtual CD/DVD-ROM/RW/RAM emulator

KernSafe TotalMounter is an advanced and powerful virtual CD/DVD-ROM/RW/RAM emulator, and it is full-featured free software for windows. TotalMounter is also a free full-featured iSCSI initiator, virtual disks emulator, and a client of INetDisk.

Its goal is to mount everything, you can not only mount a CD/DVD images (such as iso, bin, cdi, mdf, ccd, nrg etc.) as a virtualized drive, and also make these images by creating a CD/DVD-RW virtualized drive and burning data into it by burning software.

Last Updated 22 April 2010
Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista