A virtual disc has much better access rates than a physical one in a corresponding physical drive because the reading speed of a virtual CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu-ray-ROM is 50x faster compared to normal drive.
No more CD/DVD drive noise. No waiting for disc loading. No need to buy external optical drive for your netbook. DAEMON Tools enables you to use your CD/DVD images as if they were already burned to CD/DVD.
Most popular product that offers easy tools for making simple disc image files and emulating virtual CD/DVD drives.
1. Emulate a virtual CD/DVD-ROM/HD DVD and Blu-ray drives
DAEMON Tools Lite enables you to emulate up to 4 CD/DVD virtual drives on your PC. Virtual drives will appear in your OS just like real ones. Select a virtual drive then choose a disc image you want to mount. Find the created virtual drive with mounted disc image in My Computer. Start working. Daemon Tools Lite Looks like working with a real drive and a real disc, doesn’t it? Yes, but it is much faster.
2. Create a disc image
With DAEMON Tools Lite you can create ISO and MDS image files from original discs inserted in physical CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu-ray drives. Or use images you have created earlier with other program. DAEMON Tools products work with wide spread of image types.
What’s new in this version:
Version 4.35.5 adds SPTD 1.62 and full Windows 7 support.
Author: Daemon Tools
Date: 2009-11-12
Size: 10.1 MB
License: Freeware
Requires: Win 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7