How to install a virtual drive. Adding a virtual hard disk
Free program for creating virtual disks and working with them. DAEMON Tools Lite also supports image files created by other programs (Alcohol 120%, Nero, etc.).
It’s good that in our modern life there is a place for such a useful invention as CDs. They are inexpensive, easy to transport and relatively durable. However, this durability is only possible if a number of conditions are met. We often neglect them and, as a result, end up with a non-working disk, which can then only be used to decorate a room :-)
It also happens that we cannot play our favorite game or use the desired program without disk. No matter how hard we try to preserve it, over time it will become unusable. To get rid of this problem once and for all, you need to use special disk drive emulator programs.
One of the most common and, most importantly, free emulator is the program Daemon Tools. It exists in three versions, but only free Daemon Tools Lite. This is what we will talk about.
Installing a Daemon Tools Lite virtual disk
So, you have downloaded the installation distribution of the program. Launch installation. You will be offered select language programs (choose Russian;-)). Then the standard one will start "Installation Wizard". Here you will read and accept license agreement , and you will also be asked integrate panel Daemon Tools into the browser, and make the Daemon Tools page the starting page. I would recommend that you give up all these additional settings(it’s unpleasant to turn off the Daemon Tools page every time you want to access the Internet - it’s annoying!).
Installed! Will appear on the desktop and in the tray label programs.
Launching Daemon Tools Lite
You will manage the program from the tray, so the shortcut from the desktop can be removed if desired.
You will have another one in the “My Computer” folder. DVD drive.
This is why we installed the program. You can create up to such drives with Daemon Tools Lite 4 pieces. The program supports many image file formats: *.b5t, *.b6t, *.bwt, *.ccd, *.cdi, *.cue, *.nrg, *.pdi, *.isz, and can also create them herself in the following formats: *.mdf/mds(native program format) and *.iso (standard file image). This means that with Daemon Tools you can open images created earlier using programs such as Alcohol 120, Blind Write, Nero, etc.
You can manage the program by clicking on the tray icon right click mice. The following will open menu:
The program has Daemon Tools panel, making it easier to access many features. But more about her a little later.
Let's see the tab Virtual CD/DVD-ROM. Here you can set the number of drives (from 1 to 4), as well as mount on virtual disk image. To do this you need to go to the first option ( Drive 0: No data) and press "Mount image". A window will open Windows Explorer, in which you will choose required file image, and then press "Open". All!!! The virtual disk is ready for use. Now you can open it, copy it or run applications installed on it. You can do the same with three more possible disks: add support for another drive and mount the image on it.
Daemon Tools Lite Settings
Now let's look at the tab "Settings".
IN "General" You can configure those parameters related to launching the program. "Autostart" allows you to download Daemon Tools along with the system. « Automatic connection» – this is something like autoloading a disk image for user convenience. If you have the option to check for updates enabled, the program itself will notify you about the availability new version. The disk image may be locked by one of the locking systems. In this case, it will not start. You can check this in advance by checking the option "Image lock check". Now if the image is locked, the program should display a message indicating the encryption algorithm. Knowing it, you can bypass the protection. You can also configure here language programs.
IN "Panel Options" You can:
- enable or disable the Daemon Tools panel;
- place it on top;
- show the panel on top of all windows;
- configure its integration with the desktop;
- configure the display of the panel after double-clicking on the program shortcut in the tray.
IN "Settings" on the tab "Hotkeys" You can customize the buttons for quick access to the Daemon Tools panel and mount/unmount virtual disks. On the tab "Integration" you can tick those disk image formats that will automatically open with using Daemon Tools. On the tab "Compound" You can set up an Internet connection to access the manufacturer’s website through a proxy server. And finally, the most fun thing about the tab "Additional". Here you can configure the encryption algorithms that Daemon Tools will bypass when creating images of protected disks. The list is small, but the fact that it exists at all is already pleasing!!!
Now let's get back to what I promised to talk about earlier. This Daemon Tools panel.
Having it can make life much easier for any user. As they say, from right to left :-). The first thing we see is the search bar Daemon Search. With its help, you can search the Internet using it as a search engine.
On the next section of the panel there are two buttons: "Mount"n"Drive" And "Image Creation". The first allows you to quickly mount an image on a virtual drive. You just need to press it and in the window that opens, click on the icon "Add file". Once the image is added to the list, you can quickly download it using double click mice. "Image Creation" allows you to make an image of any of your disks yourself. To do this, press the button and select the drive in which you have the disk. After that, select the disk reading speed and the final saving path on the computer (by default: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\DAEMON Tools Images\NewImage.mds). Can also be customized Name And format disk image (*.mds or *.iso). To do this, click the button located next to the line with the saving path and below, under the Explorer window, enter a name in the first window, and select the file type in the second.
The next section of the panel allows you to enter settings, which we have already talked about.
The last window displays Availability V virtual disk drives disks. If you left-click on this window, an explorer window will open where you can select the desired image file. Also on this panel there is up arrow button. By clicking on this button, you will see a small window in which there will be an option unmount all drives. After clicking this button, all virtual disks are automatically unmounted. This is useful, for example, if you need to quickly increase the performance of your system, since each virtual disk requires the allocation of RAM.
This is such a good program we have. Of course, this is not such a “monster” as, for example, Alcohol, which is preferred by many users, but for everyday work you don’t need much. This is an excellent option for owners of systems that do not have disk drives (old computers, netbooks, etc.), as well as those who save every megabyte of RAM and physical memory on their computer!
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What is a disk image and virtual drive.
Disk image and virtual DVD, what is it?
Sooner or later, you will download a game or movie as a disk image file. A disk image is an exact copy of a CD or DVD disc on which a movie or game or something else is recorded.
Such a copy can be made using special programs such as Alcohol 120%, UltraISO, PowerISO, NERO, Daemon Tools and others.
What is it for?
Once you have a disk image, you can make your computer think you have a game or movie disc in your DVD drive. You can also burn this image to a blank disk and thus get an exact copy of the disk from which the image was made.
Virtual DVDCD drive.
To trick your computer into thinking it has a disc in its DVD drive, you need to use a program that adds a virtual DVDCD drive to your computer. And then mount (load) the disk image into this virtual drive.
As a result, your computer will think that it has two DVD drives and one of these drives contains a DVD or CD disc.
In the picture I have one drive, although in reality I don’t have a single DVD drive on my computer at all, but this one is virtual.(1)
Now I will connect three more virtual DVD drives (2)
Now the computer thinks it has 4 DVD drives.(3)
Moreover, now the programs emulate HD DVD, unlike a simple DVD, in the size of the supported discs. If you look, I have a 6.78 GB image of the Volt game mounted in one drive. although a regular, not double-layer, DVD is only 4.7 GB.
There are many advantages of such a solution. Firstly, the virtual drive operates faster, it does not make noise, and there is no need to constantly remove disks and insert new ones. For example, if you have games that only play when there is a disc in the DVD drive, then you can make images of these discs and mount them into virtual drives, and then you will not have to constantly change discs before playing one or another game.
Each disk in the system, no matter whether it is a hard disk or a DVD drive, is assigned one of the letters of the English alphabet. Therefore, the total number of disks cannot exceed 26. That is, if you have one HDD plus one real DVD drive, you can also connect 24 virtual DVD drives. The only downside to virtual drives is that the disk images are stored on your hard drive and take up space. Modern games and films high definition have big size, and as a result, the space they occupy can amount to hundreds of gigabytes.
The most popular image files have the extension *.iso; *.nrg; *.mds; *.mbf; *.cue; *.bin; *.ccd, and there are a dozen more different extensions.
Programs that create virtual DVD drives, support most of these formats. I personally use Daemon tools.
http://www.daemon-tools.cc
Free option, little DAEMON Tools lite. The program hangs in the tray and can create four virtual drives.(4)
Well, myself DAEMON program Tools PRO can also make images from disk. There is also good program, Alcohol 120%. Both of these programs are similar in functionality.
Another point is that the image is essentially the same archive; when you create a disk image, you get one file. And if you want to add something to an already created image file, you will have to use special programs, such as UltraISO or PowerISO.
That's what disk images and virtual drives are.
How to create a disk image easily and without problems, read here.
If you are reading this page, then you are interested in the question of how to create a virtual drive in ultraiso.
There is nothing simpler, just a few words first, why might this be needed?
It cannot completely replace the real physical one - that’s a fact.
You can only insert a virtual disk into it, however, it is a useful and sometimes irreplaceable thing.
If you have created a virtual drive and disk, and the ultraiso program allows you to do all this, you can do almost all the work as on a physical one, with the exception of installing the operating system.
So as not to forget, I’ll tell you right away what you can find out in other ways by clicking on the link.
These functions are often used by gamers. Manufacturers are constantly trying to increase the protection against copying of their inventions.
Some record games in such a way that they won’t work without a disc in the drive. This is where virtual systems come to their aid.
Now to the point: “how to create a virtual drive in ultraiso”
It seems to me that the ultraiso program itself is already installed - run it. The following window will open, in which click “options”.
After that, at the very top, you will see “settings”, click. Another window will open.
Select “virtual drive” as shown in the figure, and opposite the “number of drives” option, set the number you need and click “OK”.
So, we figured out the question of how to install the ultraiso virtual drive. Now let's see if it really exists.
To do this, click start (bottom, left), and select “computer”. Then you should see something like in the picture (I installed two).
If there is, then you can safely place the same disk (ISO) in the virtual drive you created and start using it, this is done easily, provided that the disk is already available.
If you right-click on one of them, a menu will open in which move the arrow to “ultraiso” and click on the “mount disk” option that appears.
After that, in a new window that opens, find the disk, select it, and click open. Further and further, the program will continue to work on its own, after which you will have a complete analogue of the disk and you can start performing tasks.
- I see from the comments that some people are unable to create a virtual drive using the ultraiso program, so how can I solve this problem? 99% of the time they should help.
In conclusion, I would like to say that sometimes it is impossible to make a copy of some disks, they are protected from this.
Then another program “Alcohol 120” will come to the rescue. It is capable of bypassing almost any copy protection.
A few more words about disks. So that they can work in the virtual drive you created ultraiso program, then they should be in iso format, otherwise nothing will work out.
I wrote above that using the actions described in this article, it is impossible to install operating system. This is not entirely true.
It’s possible, but again it’s virtual. More precisely, you can have several independent PCs on one platform. Then you won’t be afraid of any viruses; you ate one and installed another in a few minutes.
A virtual drive is designed to read virtual disks, and is an important tool on almost any computer. Using the drive, you can view disk image files, or use them as a kind of NoDVD. However, not everyone knows how to create a virtual drive, and in this article we will look at an example of creating a virtual drive in the UltraISO program.
UltraISO is useful utility for creating and editing disk images of the most different formats. However, in addition to this, the program has one more advantage - it can create and use virtual drives, which in their functions differ from real ones only in that you cannot insert a real disk into them. But how to create such drives in the program? Let's find out!
Creating a virtual drive
First you need to run the program in any way known to you. Now you need to open the settings, which are located in the “Options” menu component. It is very important that the program must be running on behalf of administrator, or nothing will work out at all.
Now you need to open the “Virtual Drive” tab in the settings.
Now you need to specify the number of drives you need. Select the number of devices.
In principle, that's all, but you can rename the drives; to do this, you will need to go back to the drive settings. Select the drive whose letter you want to change, and select the drive letter, then click change.
If you still forgot to enable the program as an administrator, an error will pop up, which can be solved by reading the article at the link below:
That's the whole process of creating a virtual drive, now you can mount an image into it and use the files that are on this image. This turns out to be very useful when using licensed games when the game does not work without a disc. You can simply mount the game image into the drive and play as if the disc was inserted.
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If you do not have a licensed disc, the product and/or computer games won't work. The question arises: what to do?
There are utilities that allow you to create virtual drives that are perceived by the computer as real disk drives. Popular among them are DaemonTools, Alcohol 120% and UltraISO. The latter will be discussed. It allows you not only to create artificial partitions and then mount them, but also to record them.
The program interface looks like this:
To start using this utility, you need to set up a disk drive emulator. To do this, click on “ Options", and in the dropped context menu to the item " Settings", as shown in the screenshot:
In the window that appears, you need to select a tab as in the screenshot:
In the list " Number of devices» select the required number. The best option there will be two because many disks are divided into two or more parts. But if there are too many of them, you can get confused.
After pressing " OK", the settings will close, and the created sections can be seen by going to " ":
If you previously used another similar program, then it is possible to transfer control of the partitions to it.
To do this, click " Find", as shown in the screenshot, and if found on the computer suitable utility, you will be asked for permission to use it. If you accept, you will no longer be able to use UltraISO to create drives and mount.
Click on the " Tools", and in the context menu that appears, select " Mount into a virtual drive..." Or use hotkey « F6", after which the mount window will open. The third way to open this window is the mount icon on the panel.
A window will open, select the section you want to use, and then click on the “ … "and specify the path to the file with iso extension, img, mds, mdf.
Having selected it, click on “ Mount", and then close the window. Now you can use the disk. And to extract the image, go to the same window, select the drive and click the " unmount».
Working with UltraISO
You can download images from the Internet or burn them from disk yourself. To do this, insert the disc into the computer, and in the menu " Tools» select the item « Create an imageCD..."( hotkey « F7»).
Then click the “…” button and specify the save path. In this case, it is better not to change the name. After this, click on “ Do" and wait. Now, until it is saved, it is better not to touch anything, even if you good configuration. This will save you from possible mistakes.
UltraISO also supports the ability to burn images, which allows you to create a copy of the disk. To do this you need to go to the menu " Tools" and select the item " Burn imageCD...", press the button " F7» or select the corresponding icon on the tools menu. In the window that appears, select the desired drive from the list " Drive unit».
Specify the recording speed. If your device supports fast recording, you can set high speed, but this is not recommended, as the quality of burning may decrease. Now click the button … " and specify the path to the file, or copy the path into the " Image file».
After specifying all the parameters, click the “record” button. It's even more important to leave your computer alone while burning than when saving.
Results
In this article we looked at:
- creating virtual drives
- saving images
- mounting and unmounting
- recording discs.
The information obtained in this article will help you confidently manage not only this, but other utilities with similar tasks. Knowing how to create a virtual drive in UltraISO will bypass the inevitable cost of .
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