Virtual ISO CDR Drive

[Keith]

Does anyone know of any software (free or commercial) which would act as a
'virtual' CDR drive so I could use software to burn to ISO images when I
don't have discs available and then burn the ISO's at a later date?

Thanks

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Most thrid party CD burning software allows you to "save" ISO images.
Virtual CD software is supposed to be uses so that you do not need to have
the CD in the drive in order to use the CD software.

Roxio Easy Media Creator
Ahead Nero

allos you to save ISOs.

 

[Keith]

Sorry, I dont think I worded my questiion correctly. I want something which
goes like this:

- No CDR drive in PC or don't want to use it
- Want to burn something to disc
- Instead of the application (which may not be Nero/Roxio - it may be XP or
3rd party software which writes out to CD) burning to CDR media it burns to
a virtual drive (which to the software looks like a CDR drive) which let's
the software do the burn but put the resulting output into a ISO file

Thanks

 

[GO]

Daemon Tools should do what you're looking for...
http://www.daemon-tools.cc/

 

[Lorien]

There are several products out there that will create an ISO file that's
stored on your hard drisk instead of to a CD-ROM (so you can burn it later
if you want or even use it as if it were a CD-ROM drive to extract the
individual files and data. Check out some of the major shareware and
freeware resource locations like www.download.com and www.tucows.com (I like
tucows personally). I use products called Magic ISO and ISO Buster which
not only create the ISO, but also allows me to read an ISO that I didn't
create without first needing to burn it. I don't remember where I got
them - it's been a while (but be assured there ARE programs that will do
what your're looking to do - and you can probably find them either as
freeware or adware or inexpensive shareware).

 

[Yves Leclerc]

I know of "Virtual CD" which will make a "copy" of the CD and will allow you
your this image as if the CD was in the CD drive. However, more and more
software (especially games) are now checking to see if a virtual CD drive
exist on the PC that the software is being installed on. If the software
finds one, it "refuses" to owrk or even install.