What is the name of the disk emulator? How to create a virtual hard disk and virtual CD-ROM


Last week we asked you to share your favorite disk image tools, then we rounded up the five most popular responses for a vote. Now we"re back to highlight your favorite. DAEMON Tools led the pack by a comfortable margin with 40% of the vote.

Softpedia.com DAEMON Tools Lite is a software solution that will impress you, especially thanks to its advanced features that can deal with virtually all image formats on the market. Reliable application that creates virtual drives on your computer, providing you with the possiblity to emulate CDs and DVDs for instant access.

PCWorld.com If you spend a lot of time swapping and hence waiting on CDs or DVDs to mount, Daemon Tools Lite is worth its weight in gold. Even if you don"t, it"s a program you should download to keep in your bag of tricks--you"ll find a use for it eventually.

Download.com The advantage is that you can burn the images you"re using with DAEMON Tools Lite right away or just test an image before burning it to see if it was created correctly. DAEMON Tools Lite works with most image formats.

Filecluster.com Pros
- Small and highly stable program.
- Low resource requirements.
- Simple and functional interface...

Software.Informer.com DAEMON Tools Lite manages to be more comprehensive and feature-rich than many of its competitors. And that's quite remarkable, especially considering that DAEMON Tools Lite is free while many of its competitors are not.

downloads.tomsguide.com As a disc imaging tool, Daemon Tools Lite"s free nature automatically makes it a lot better than many competing applications simply because it offers most of what they offer at the vastly reduced price of free.

www.techadvisor.co.uk When you have a disc that you know you"ll need to access regularly, then, DAEMON Tools Lite allows you to create an image in just a couple of clicks. This then shows up in its Image Catalog for speedy reloading later, and you can put the real disc away.

techgyd.com Daemon Tools Lite is one of the best software for emulating and organizing your disc images. The software is very easy to use and fulfills all your disc related requirements. The virtual drives support is amazing.

maddownload.com If you are looking for the best software to work with ISO, MDX, MDS, and MDX files? Well, you have come to the right place. DAEMON Tools Lite is an easy and ready to use downloadable software compatible with Windows. It is well known reputable software that gives you the power of having a DVD-ROM emulator right into the comfort of your own home.

GIGA.de Mit dem Daemon Tools Lite Download könnt ihr virtuelle Images erstellen, speichern und einbinden sowie virtuelle Laufwerke emulieren.

Read about how to create and work with disk images, as well as what programs you use in our article today.

Disk image. Areas of application

A disk image is a file containing a complete copy of the content and structure of the data located on the drive.

Under the disk in in this case should be understood as any hard (HDD), floppy (FDD) or optical (CD/DVD) disk or Flash drive.

Advice! The main advantage of a virtual image is the fact that the disk image contains absolutely all the information to duplicate the structure, content and location of data on the storage medium, repeating its set of sectors and ignoring the file system.

Virtual disks are used for the following purposes:

  1. Reserve copy.
    Unlike regular programs Reserve copy, which copy only those files to which there is access; if an image is created, in addition to the data itself, the bootloader and files that could be blocked by the OS will also be copied.
  2. Software distribution. For distribution (including via the Internet) of operating systems (OS) and software (software) having big size(for example, BSD, Linux OS distributions).
  3. Create virtual hard disks in virtual machines. Before you start working with a virtual machine, you must create a virtual HDD, on which the operating system will subsequently be installed.
  4. Replication of similar systems.
    If installation is necessary operating system and software on computers with the same hardware configuration.
    A more rational step would be to install and configure the OS and software on one computer, after which an image is created along with all system settings and installed on other computers.

The .ISO format is the most popular disk image format, but has the disadvantage of lacking support for multi-session data.

Others popular formats are .DMG and .IMG formats, as well as proprietary .MDS/.MDF (Alcohol, Daemon Tools), NRG (Nero Burning ROM), .VCD (VirtualCD) and others.

Overview of programs for creating a disk image

Alcohol 52%

The program settings allow you to:

    check the accuracy of reading data from physical devices;

    improve scan quality bad sectors;

    simultaneous operation with 6 virtual drives;

    work with formats: BIN, BWA, BWI, BWS, BWT, CCD, CDI, CUE, ISO, ISZ, NRG, MDS;

DAEMON Tools

As can be seen from the table, for the tasks of the average user, the functionality of the free version is sufficient, which allows you to create and mount everything existing types images and emulate up to 4 drives.

The program has a clear Russified menu.

Ultra ISO

Ultra ISO- this program allows you to create, edit, convert images into various formats (b5i, b5t, b6i, b6t, bin, bwi, bwt, ccd, cdi, cue, daa, dao, dmg, icf, iso, ima, img, isz, lcd, mdf, mds, nrg, pxi, sub, tao, uif, vc4).

In addition to creating images from CDs, it is also possible to create images from hard drives And

Users who lived through the early 2000s probably remember the times when films computer games, programs and music were delivered to our computers only using CD/DVD discs that were common at that time. About free downloading of data on the Internet, torrents and youtube more no one knew. The situation was saved by optical drives, with the help of which information was transferred to the computer’s hard drive.

The rapid development of Internet technologies has called into question the need to have such a component as a “disk drive”. In today's desktop systems and laptops you rarely see a drive. All because of virtual disks, which replaced “blanks” and became commonplace. However, not everyone was able to make a comfortable transition to the new technology. In this article we will try to fix this situation and explain in detail the essence of the creation process, the nuances of use and other questions that have repeatedly arisen for everyone who does not know how to use a virtual CD ROM.

When you might need it

Many may doubt the idea of ​​using an innovation that has caught on with some people and simply continue to use the optical drive, using it to rewrite images and information onto physical media. However, the archaic version loses in some cases, the most common of which are:

  • Missing or faulty disk drive. Any part does not have an eternal service life. Sooner or later, a problem may arise, and it’s good if it does not happen at the most necessary moment (which, according to the “law of meanness,” happens often). In addition, the “system specialist” receiving the disk with information from you may simply not have an optical drive. But a virtual CD-ROM is available on any modern PC (if you devote some time to creating it).
  • Multichannel. I have rarely come across computers that had multiple disk drives at once. Users who often work with recording and reading discs had to constantly rearrange CD/DVDs. There are no such problems with virtual disks, which means you can work with several at once.
  • Convenient data transfer. To exchange information recorded on a disc, you need to personally hand over the media to the receiving party. In the case of virtually recorded images, the transfer is carried out online, over the Internet.

Creating a virtual CD-ROM

To read virtual images ( iso files; mdf, bwi, mds and others), you need to create a virtual CD-ROM, which, like an optical drive, reproduces (emulates) data from the drive. You can create a virtual disk using special software, such as Daemon Tools, Virtual Drive. Their operating principle is identical, and the functionality is largely similar. For example, we took the last one listed, since its capabilities and tools are very easy to cope with even for a user who is far from such processes.

  1. First, download the Alcohol 120% program installer using a link from the Yandex disk, or on the developer’s official website. Install it on your computer.
  2. Let's launch the program. First of all, we need to create a virtual CD drive. To do this, in the “Settings” section, select the option "Virtual disk".
  1. In the menu that opens, manually select the number of virtual disks to be created. Confirm the result by clicking on the OK button.

The drive has been successfully created, which we can see in the “Device” panel or in the “My Computer” folder.

  1. Now let's open the finished image. To do this, select the “File” tab, and in the menu that opens, click on “Open…” (or simply use the combination Ctrl keys+O).
  1. We find the image file we need, select it with LMB and click on the “Open” button.

The image has been added to the library for processing.

  1. Now you need to read the previously added file. To do this, select the RMB image, and in the drop-down menu select the option "Mount to device".

Work is done. We can see the result in the “Computer” folder, where the installer located in the virtual drive will be listed among the reading devices.

After performing operations with the image, you need to remove it from the virtual drive. To do this, using the Alcohol 120% program, select our BD-ROM in the menu of available drives right click mouse and select a function from the list "Dismantle image". The disk will be empty again.

If you want to remove the virtual drive altogether, you need to repeat similar steps as when creating it:

  1. In the available devices, click on the DVD/CD drive RMB. In the list that appears, click “Properties”.
  1. Set the value back to “0” in the section for selecting the number of virtual disks and click “OK”.

Adding a virtual hard disk

The above opportunities have been available to many for a decade now. Popularity of use virtual device reading information caused the appearance of a similar phenomenon called a virtual hard disk. This technology allows you to create a file (with a VHD extension) that appears in Explorer as standard section on your hard drive. Everyone decides for themselves the rationality of using a virtual drive: some reorganize free space on volumes in this way, others even install an OS. Do not forget about the opportunity to create a protected file container, thus limiting information from attacks by other users.

We will create a virtual hard disk using standard Windows tools(this feature is available on Windows 7, 8.1, 10). However, with the help of special software you can achieve a similar result. Daemon Tools Ultra, as well as Disk2vhd, cope with this task most effectively. These programs have separate sections, dedicated to the creation of virtual disks (both drives and drives similar to HDDs).

  1. Open the “Run” service by simultaneously pressing the Win + R keys. Enter the command diskmgmt.msc into the empty line and click OK.
  1. The service will open "Disk Management". In the control menu, activate the "Action" tab, and in it select "Create a virtual hard disk".
  1. In the window that appears, you need to specify the location created file, select the format (VHD/VHDX), and also determine the possibility of file extension.
  1. The file has been created, but the disk has not yet been initialized. By right-clicking on the disk, select the option "Initialize disk".
  1. In the next window you need to specify the section style (we recommend GUID if you intend to limit standard features work with allocated space).

Connecting the drive after rebooting the PC

Unfortunately, working with virtual hard drive requires remounting the VHD/VHDX file after completing each session. Fortunately, we don’t have to create a new disk, initialize a partition, or create a volume. To return the virtual disk to work (emulate data), you must perform the following steps:


We hope that with the help of our article you learned how to create a virtual disk, and also determined the benefits of using it.

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Users personal computers often encounter image files optical disks format ISO or MDF. These files contain various file information, multimedia content or installation “image” with Windows OS, as well as many other data.

Therefore, the PC user faces a task, the solution of which is to open these files, view them, or process information on these images. Most popular programs which can create a virtual DVD-ROM to read ISO images as well as write them to optical drives are Alcohol 120 And Ultra ISO. In this material, we will describe with examples how to create a virtual DVD-ROM, and also describe the process of creating ISO images using these utilities.

We create and mount images on a virtual DVD drive using Alcohol 120

Alcohol 120 appeared back in 2002. Since then, it has become very popular among Russian-speaking users. It gained popularity due to the ability to create virtual DVD drives and mount an image on them. The program can also write images to physical optical drives. You can download the program on its official website www.alcohol-soft.com. After downloading the installer, you can begin installing the program. On startup installation file, we will be taken to its start window.

In this window, click Next, and continue downloading and installing the utility to go to the next window. In this window, we will make a decision regarding the license agreement, after which the main utility installer will begin downloading to the computer. After downloading, the main installer window will launch.

Let's move on to the next step, where we will also resolve the issue of accepting the license agreement, and then click the Next> button. After completing these steps, the installer will ask you to restart a computer, with which we must agree.

After reboot the same wizard will start, in which you must again accept the license agreement. Next we will move on to selection of installed components. Leaving all components unchanged, click the Next> button.

In the next window, select the installation location for the utility and click the Next> button. After these steps installation will begin. After installing the program, launch it from a shortcut on the Desktop, which will allow us to go to the main program window.

At the bottom of the program you can see that we have two optical drives on our computer, one virtual, which I made Alcohol 120 and one physical. Now let's start creating an image file. To do this, insert a licensed disk with Windows 10 into our PC. Going to the program window, press the button “ Creating images" This action will open the Image Creation Wizard.

From this window you can see that the utility I myself chose the physical drive from which I need to make an image file, and also displayed all the information about the disc in the DVD drive. To create an image file, all that remains is to do last action- press the Start button.

The recorded ISO image will appear in the main window of the utility. By right-clicking on it, you can mount it to the utility’s virtual disk.

The example shows that creating an ISO image and mounting it on a virtual DVD-ROM is not at all difficult. Also, if necessary, the created image file can be written to a new optical disk directly from the utility menu in the " Burning images to discs" With this action we will make another copy of the Windows 10 license disk.

Create and mount images on Virtual DVD-ROM using UltraISO

Program Ultra ISO as well as Alcohol 120 can burn images, create Virtual DVD drives and mount images on them. In addition, the utility can edit dozens of image formats, which is a big plus. You can download the utility from its official website https://ezbsystems.com/ultraiso. Even a novice user can figure out how to install the utility, as it is very simple. Therefore, there is no point in describing the installation process of the utility. After installing the utility, launch it from a shortcut on the Desktop. This action will move us to the main program window.

Before creating an image in Ultra ISO, insert the licensed disc with Windows 10 into the DVD drive. Now in the program window press the F8 key to call the image creation wizard. In the wizard, select the image type " ISO"and the DVD drive where our Windows disk 10. After installing the selected options, click the Make button, which will directly launch the creation process itself.

To mount our created image file, we need to press the F6 button, after which a wizard will appear in which we can choose the location of our image, mounting it on the virtual drive created during installation of the utility.

In the same way we can unmount the image file from the virtual DVD drive A.

As can be seen from the example, the utility is as easy to use as Alcohol 120.

Let's sum it up

The utilities discussed are quite easy to use and perform their task 100 percent. Therefore utilities Alcohol 120 And Ultra ISO have become so popular among millions of users around the world. In addition to the programs discussed, there are also such popular utilities that you can familiarize yourself with:

  • Gizmo Drive;
  • WinCDEmu;
  • DAEMON Tools.

These programs have similar functionality as in the utilities under consideration. I would also like to note that these programs and the ones in question support both old and new Windows operating systems, so users, for example, with Windows XP will not have any problems running them.

We hope that our material introduced you better to Alcohol 120 And Ultra ISO, so you can create your own disk images and mount them on virtual drives.

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In this article I would like to touch on two things at once: virtual disk and a disk drive. In fact, they are interconnected, just below we will immediately make a short footnote to make it clearer what will be discussed in the article...

Virtual disk(the name “disk image” is popular on the Internet) is a file whose size is usually equal to or slightly larger than the actual CD/DVD disk from which this image was obtained. Often images are made not only from CDs, but also from hard drives or flash drives.

Virtual disk drive(CD-Rom, disk drive emulator) - roughly speaking, this is a program that can open the image and present you with the information on it, as if it were a real disk. There are quite a lot of programs of this kind.

The best programs for working with virtual disks and drives

1. Daemon Tools

Link to the lite version: http://www.daemon-tools.cc/rus/products/dtLite#features

One of best programs for creating and emulating images. Supported formats for emulation: *.mdx, *.mds/*.mdf, *.iso, *.b5t, *.b6t, *.bwt, *.ccd, *.cdi, *.bin/*.cue, * .ape/*.cue, *.flac/*.cue, *.nrg, *.isz.

You can create only three image formats: *.mdx, *.iso, *.mds. You can use a lightweight version of the program for home (for non-commercial purposes) for free. The link is given above.

After installing the program, another CD-Rom (virtual) appears in your system, which can open any images(see above) which you can only find on the Internet.

To mount the image: run the program, then right-click on the CD-Rom, and select the “mount” command from the menu.

To create an image Just run the program and select the “create disk image” function.

After this, a window will pop up in which you need to select three things:

The disk whose image will be obtained;

Image format (iso, mdf or mds);

The location where the virtual disk (i.e. image) will be saved.

Conclusions:

One of the best programs for working with virtual disks and drives. Its capabilities are probably enough for the vast majority of users. The program works very quickly, does not load the system, supports all the most popular Windows versions: XP, 7, 8.

2. Alcohol 120%/52%

Link: http://trial.alcohol-soft.com/en/downloadtrial.php

(to download Alcohol 52%, when you click on the link above, look for the download link at the very bottom of the page)

A direct competitor to Daemon tools, and many rate Alcohol even higher. In general, Alcohol is not inferior in functionality to Daemon Tools: the program can also create virtual disks, emulate them, and record them.

Why 52% and 120%? It's a matter of the number of options. If in 120% you can create 31 virtual drives, then in 52% - only 6 (although for me - 1-2 is more than enough), plus 52% cannot write images to CD/DVD discs. Well, of course, 52% is free, and 120% is paid version programs. But, by the way, at the time of writing, the 120% version is given for 15 days for trial use.

Personally, I have version 52% installed on my computer. A screenshot of the window is shown below. The basic functions are all there, you can quickly create any image and use it. There is also an audio converter, but I have never used it...

3. Ashampoo Burning Studio Free

Link: https://www.ashampoo.com/en/usd/pin/7110/burning-software/Ashampoo-Burning-Studio-FREE

This is one of the best programs for home use(also free). What can she do?

Work with audio discs, video, create and burn images, create images from files, burn to any (CD/DVD-R and RW) discs, etc.

For example, when working with an audio format, you can:

Create Audio CD;

Create an MP3 disk (https://site/kak-zapisat-mp3-disk/);

Copy music files to disk;

Transfer files from an audio disc to your hard drive in a compressed format.

Video discs are also more than decent: Video DVD, Video CD, Super Video CD.

Conclusions:

An excellent combine that can easily replace a whole range of utilities of this kind. As they say, install it once and always use it. Of the main drawbacks, there is only one: you cannot open images in a virtual disk drive (it simply does not exist).

4. Nero

Website: http://www.nero.com/rus/products/nero-burning-rom/free-trial-download.php

I couldn’t ignore such a legendary package for burning discs, working with images, and in general, everything related to audio-video files.

With this package you can do everything: create, record, erase, edit, convert video-audio (almost any formats), even print covers for recordable discs.

Minuses:

A huge package that contains everything you need and don’t need, many even 10 parts do not use the program’s capabilities;

Paid program (free test is possible for the first two weeks of use);

It puts a lot of stress on the computer.

Conclusions:

Personally, I haven’t used this package for a long time (which has already turned into a big “combine”). But in general, the program is very worthy, suitable for both beginners and experienced users.

5. ImgBurn

Website: http://imgburn.com/index.php?act=download

The program pleases you from the very beginning: the site provides 5-6 links so that any user can easily download it (from whatever country he is from). Plus add to this ten three various languages, supported by the program, among which there is Russian.

Basically, without even knowing in English, this program will not be difficult to understand even for novice users. After launch, you will see a window with all the features and functions that the program has. See screenshot below.

Allows you to create images of three types: iso, bin, img.

Conclusions:

good free program. If you use it in combination, for example, with Daemon Tools, then the possibilities are enough for your eyes...

6. Clone CD/Virtual Clone Drive

Website: http://www.slysoft.com/en/download.html


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