Looking for a virtual drive software

Hi, I'm an old Windows user. I often used to work with a virtual drive software like Alcohol 120%, Virtual cd or Daemon tool. If I wanted to mount one or more virtual CD drives on my Macbook, how could I do? Is it possible to do? And if it's possible, what kind of software should I use? Thanks, and sorry for my bad english...

Macbook 13.3", Mac OS X (10.4.8), 1GB RAM

Posted on Dec 18, 2006 6:36 AM

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Dec 18, 2006 9:33 AM in response to GiangiUSA

You can create a RAM disk using the freeware utility Esperance (www.versiontracker.com.)

You can create disk-based images using Disk Utility. Consult Disk Utility Help from the Disk Utility Help menu.

Also see: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302276.



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Dec 18, 2006 8:39 AM in response to GiangiUSA

User uploaded fileYou don't need vitual CD tools for OSX like Alcohol 120% or Daemon Tools.

OSX has an build in feature for CD and DVD image's, like .iso and .dmg. When you open the image's, OSX will mount them on your desktop.

At this moment there is no vitual drive software for OSX, altough it would be nice to have it.

Toast is the only software at this moment which can also mount image's, it does exactly the same as OSX. But when OSX can't mount a image (due it is damaged), Toast sometime's can.

Hopefully this solved your problem. (see button above this message)

Dec 18, 2006 9:46 AM in response to Kappy

User uploaded fileKappy, this is not what he does mean, i think.

He will probably wants to open a .iso image off a CD using a Virtual CD application so he won't get a message like "Insert the CD to start the application".

This is a quite nice software feature which has never existed for OSX so far. When a tool like Deamon Tools has been installed on Windows, Windows thinks it has a second DVD drive, connected by SCSI. The Virtual CD tool can "insert" a image (like .iso) to the SCSI drive so Windows actually thinks there has been inserted a disk. This way Windows won't give message's like "Insert the CD to start the application" cause he just thinks there is the right disk inside the player.

Dec 21, 2006 1:21 PM in response to Anne Bras

Exactly! For example: On my PC, I often use an Italian <-> English dictionary, if I want to use it, I should insert the CD on the drive otherwise I get the message: Insert the CD...bla...bla...but I have solved the problem creating virtual image of the CD on my HD. Great! it works!
I hope to do the same thing on my Mac too, because I'm loving it! and I hope not to come back to windows any more...
Anyway, thanks for your answers.

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