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Demon Keeler
06-25-04, 06:59 AM
hey guys!

is there any guides around showing how to make an image of a cd on a virtual drive so I don't have to use my game cd's in the drive all the time?
loks
06-25-04, 09:08 AM
get Alcohol 120%!!! That will do the trick.
I.M.O.G.
06-25-04, 09:11 AM
You need to use any recording program of your choice, and write to the "virtual recorder".

What application are you useing?

Daemon tools is a good application for loading the images from your HDD.
Demon Keeler
06-26-04, 02:39 AM
ok guys I had a little play around with deamon tools and stuffed up somewheres I think! I've created 2 extra DVD drives but can't do anything with them...
http://img4.imgspot.com/u/04/177/07/oops.jpg

any ideas on how I can get rid of them??? :confused:

thanks!
splodinstuff
06-26-04, 04:01 AM
can deamon tools actually rip the image, or do u have to use a seperate program to do that?
wizard james
06-26-04, 04:33 AM
i use Alcohol 120% all the time.. its alot easyer then changeing all my disks to play one game to the other.. and they load faster too
madman22
06-26-04, 07:29 AM
i think Virtual Cd is better. The only bad thing is, it costs some cash, but it worth it, it does everything, reads image from CD, writes image to CD, virtual drive, and much more.
wizard james
06-26-04, 11:35 AM
never heard of this virtual cd ..

Alcohol 120% is not free but i got a trial download and when i looked in the reg files there was something and said non-pro and pro.. so i turned pro on and no pro off and i got full version.

but its all i relly need. i got a slow 48x cd reader.. need a 56x... and your hdd reads way faster then your cd will ever
Fightingpiper
06-26-04, 01:11 PM
I use clone CD to rip the images and Alcohol120% for my virtual drives....
madman22
06-27-04, 03:01 PM
http://www.virtualcd-online.com/

it can do DVDs and music and everything.
Xenocide
06-27-04, 03:34 PM
i use winiso to make an image then i use daemon tools w/ full emulation on
I.M.O.G.
06-27-04, 04:53 PM
Daemon tools loads the images, it doesn't rip them. Loading the image is like putting the disc in the drive.

So if you have the image of the disc already created using whatever recorder you prefer and writing to the virtual recorder, all you have to do is select one of the virtual daemon drives and tell it to mount the image file. Then you will be up and running.