virtual drive software for a mac?

Question

i need a preferably free virtual drive software for mac os 9.2.2
is there any out there

i need virtual DRIVE sowtware not virtaul PC software

Answer 1

Unless one has used "virtual drive" software or has been a programmer for a company that makes "virtual drive" software, one cannot know what is meant by "virtual drive".

Let me give two possible ways that one could make a "virtual drive" on a Mac. As one answer eluded, OS 9 and older Mac systems could make a RAM drive. That was a method of storing data in memory. You could even install a game on the RAM drive and then, when the game was running, it read and wrote data to RAM instead of to a physical drive. This made data move faster and improved performance of the game. But in those old days, RAM was expensive and you couldn't get enough of it so why waste it on a virtual drive? Besides, when you shutdown, the data floating in RAM was lost so at next startup, you would need to install the same game into RAM again.

Another type of "virtual drive" is a disk image. This is a common way that an application can be "installed" on a Mac. Since there is no registry on a Mac system (thank God!), a disk image can mount just like a real drive and then you just open the disk image and copy whatever you want from that window to your hard drive. To make a disk image, open Disk Copy (in Applications / Utilities) and drop whatever files you want onto the window of Disk Copy. The problem with this "virtual disk" is that it is really part of the hard drive so it isn't so virtual. But nothing is really a virtual disk since it must always take away from some other measurable space on the system. You can't get drive space out of... empty space.

Answer 2

Hello iceman9827,

The old Macs had virtual drive capabilities, but I haven't seen any since Mac OS X outside of "Classic Mode". Frankly, I haven't really gotten into Classic Mode much since Mac OS X. Mac OS X is so much superior.

Virtual Drives were part of the OS, not necessarily a separate program, and I don't think that this will work in classic mode. However, I was under the impression that Parallel was something of a virtual drive. Maybe you should look into this.

http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/mac/

Best of luck to you.

--Rick

Answer 3

http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=vpcmac

Sorry I don't think they make 1 for Mac


The program you've requested, GlobalDrive Virtual Disk Drive, is not available for download at this time.

Answer 4

Can't help you on OS9. But, to summarize "SilverTo" correct, but extremely long winded answer.

The Mac OSX's Virtual CD Drive is -- the "image mount".

Answer 5

try digital Clone tension. I dont understand if it works on MAC, even if it works completely on Win 7. If it do no longer artwork, try Alcohol one hundred twenty, Magic ISO, Magic Disc, or Daemon kit. good success and that i wish this facilitates.