virtual drive?

Question

what is a virtual drive and how will i use it? help me please!!!!!!!

Answer 1

A virtual drive is a term used with respect to computers when a drive is emulated in some fashion. The drive being emulated could be a hard drive, floppy drive, CD/DVD or a network share among others.

A virtual hard drive can be created from RAM for fast read/write access.
Virtual DVDs are often mounted as disk images via disk image emulator software. This allows to read the content of a CD or DVD from the disk image on a hard drive, rather than a disc drive. This may also allow users to run software that requires a CD or a DVD, without the need of having a registered copy in the disc drive.
A virtual CD burner is a device driver that emulates a CD/DVD Burner. It appears as another drive in the system with writing capabilities. When information is written to the drive, it creates an ISO Image representation of the CD that would, under normal circumstances, be physically created. ISO images can be commpressed into CSO images for compressed iso images.

This allows you to use any CD burning software to create what can be later mounted as a virtual drive.

Some virtual drive soft are listed below:

* MagicDisc - Freeware virtual CD-ROM program for Windows 9x/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista
* CD Emulator - free virtual CD-ROM program for Windows XP (and unofficially Windows 2000) from Microsoft.
* Floppy Drive Emulator - free virtual Floppy Drive program for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003. It only works on 32 bit systems.
* Alcohol Backup & Emulation software
* Semi-Virtual Diskette (SVD) - a vintage hardware floppy drive/image emulator.
* DAEMON Tools - The Free Virtual CD/DVD-ROM-Emulator .


Visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_drive

Answer 2

A virtual drive is a drive is emulated in some fashion. The drive being emulated could be a hard drive, floppy drive, CD/DVD or a network share among others.

A good example of this is second level cashe where what you are working on is placed there to make faster access of the information.

Answer 3

You need software to mount a virtual drive. It's just what it sounds like: a pretend drive. When you mount a virtual drive, your computer thinks you have a new drive (usually you want it to be a DVD drive so you can install software without having it on disk). Take your pick:

Alcohol 120%:
http://www.alcohol-soft.com/

Daemon Tools:
http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/announcements.php

PowerISO:
http://www.poweriso.com/

MagicISO:
http://www.magiciso.com/

UltraISO:
http://www.ezbsystems.com/ultraiso/