entranceCreating an image of the game through alcohol 120. How to mount a disk image in Alcohol
The program in question has nothing to do with alcoholic beverages. Alcohol 120% is a powerful CD / DVD emulator and creator of their images in combination. Do you have a valuable disc that you are afraid to breathe on? Use the program to create an image of it, mount it on an "alcoholic" drive - you will work with this disc as with a real one! And even better - faster, because the image is on the hard disk. In this article, we will talk about how to do it all in real life, and about the advantages of creating "alcoholic" disc images.
Yes, the name of the program really sounds strange, but this is only for the Russian ear. Actually "alcogol" has a different meaning here - "spirit" or "fantom". Can't virtual disks of a program be called phantoms in relation to real ones? Quite. "But why then 120%?" - users keep on guessing. It is believed that the product reached such a "strength" when two components that previously existed independently were mixed in it - Alcohol 52% and Alcohol 68%. "This is a very strong program. We wanted to emphasize its power, to show that it is better than 100%," the developers explain. Be that as it may, the new software cocktail successfully combined the functions of recording discs and creating and emulating images - what was previously done separately by each utility. And, as a result, Alcohol 120% became a must have, forever settling on the hard drives of many users.
Here are just a few features of the program, thanks to which Alcohol 120% has become so popular. The program copies CD / DVD; creates accurate images; searches for images on disks; burns discs of any format; supports great amount physical drives; emulates the work of a 200-speed CD and DVD-ROM drive; can create up to 31 such virtual devices at the same time; knows how to work with most other people's CD-images. So if you didn't know what to do with the ISO file found somewhere on the Internet, you can "feed" it to this program.
Why do you need disk images
The main difference between Alcohol 120% and similar programs is the ability to create the most accurate images of almost any discs, including copy-protected ones. Fortunately, our readers do not need to talk about the benefits of using disk images for a long time, so we will only list the reasons that lead to their creation.
- Laser media are short-lived, and the storage life of data on them is not infinite. And it’s a pity when a priceless disc shatters into pieces in the drive, bursts or cracks. If it is a toy, then the likelihood of such an event increases significantly. And we will not even remember that your disk can get stuck, scratched or broken.
- If we talk about toys and movies, then the speed of reading data comes to the fore - for CD / DVD this speed is much lower than for a hard disk. So when working with images, both the game and the cinema will slow down less.
- The fact that you can save on physical drives by replacing them with virtual ones is rather a theoretical question. Computers are even hard to imagine without these devices, given their current low cost. But that's all local area network completing CD and DVD drives with Alcohol 120% is already a luxury. And to each user to allocate separate discs with programs, too, is not necessary - let them use them mounted on virtual drives.
Total: we save money, speed up work, save licensed disks.
How to create a disk image
For some reason, Alcohol 120% is recommended only experienced users... In fact, the creation of images in this program is very simple under the guidance of a wizard and is completed in a matter of minutes. The only thing that might need to change is the DPM (data location) measurement speed. By reducing this speed, a more accurate image can be obtained.
More fine tuning You may need to read data only if you want to create a copy-protected disk image. For this purpose, available to the user a lot of changeable options: pass chteniya errors uluchshennoe ckanipovanie cektopov, chtenie cubkanalnyx dannyx c tekuschego dicka, izmepenie pozitsionipovaniya dannyx with a given tochnoctyu emulation ploxix cektopov emulation RMPS (fizicheckoy podpici zapicyvaemogo dicka). But in most cases, to bypass known protection algorithms, it is enough to select one of the preset modes from the list offered by the program. The developers even took care of the possibility of setting the regional code of the virtual drive.
We will not go into the details of bypassing various defenses, so that we are not caught aiding the pirates. We only note that you have the right to make a single copy of the program, purchased by you for your own money - this is stipulated by the legislation of many countries, including Russia. And it doesn't matter on what medium this program is recorded.
What to do with the image
To mount an image means to load an image file into a virtual drive. Alcohol 120% will provide other programs with access to the downloaded data in such a way as if the original disk is in a physical drive. For example, if it is a movie, then players like Crystal Player will play it from the moment it is stopped. 
You can do this (mount an image) in any of the three simplest ways: by double-clicking on the name of the image in the program list, pressing the hot keys assigned to this image and using the context windows menu... If you right-click on the virtual drive icon, a list of previously used images will appear in the menu - download any of them! This method seemed to us the most convenient. 
By default, the program has only one virtual drive, others can be added in the settings. However, you should not be too zealous, since they will all be perceived by the system as physical devices - you can simply get entangled in them.
Alcohol 120% works not only with its own images (* .mds), but also with others. If you do not want to remember what formats are images made by Blindread, CloneCD, DiscJuggler, Instant CD / DVD or Nero programs, you can simply run an automatic scan hard drives and Alcohol 120% will make a list of all images found. It is clear that any of them can be mounted in the ways described above.
Burning images and copying discs
You shouldn't be very happy that your licensed disc is lying untouched in the nightstand - perhaps in a couple of years it will simply stop being read by the drive. So from time to time you need to put a fresh copy next to it. To do this, you can burn an image file to a CD / DVD-disc or make a copy of the original disc - both possibilities are present in the program. In the presence of two physical drives, Alcohol 120% allows you to copy discs even on the fly - bypassing the creation of an image on the hard drive.
What's new
Despite the idle rumors about the closure of the project, Alcohol 120% not only lives on, but is also replenished with new opportunities. The most worthwhile novelties of this year, we would call: Windows support 64Bit, replacement for virtual drive (now based on code Daemon tools 4.03), improved read and write algorithms for the program, improved DPM for DVD media. List of other changes in latest version programs (1.9.5 Build 3823) impressive: support for Unicode, revision of the "Event log" and "Help", updating language localizations, fixing all sorts of errors and adding little things like updating the program.
Currently, the developers are collecting useful ideas from users to improve their program. There are plenty of such ideas, selected for implementation in the future. All this allows us to hope for an early release of the next version of the program with new wonderful features.
A special program Alcohol 120% can run files in the .mds .bwt .b5t .b6t .ccd .cdi .pdi .iso .isz .nrg .cue format. Many games and programs are now distributed in the form of virtual disks. So in order to open them and install them on your computer you need specific program... For example, we have Alcohol 120%. To unpack virtual disk and install what was needed on it.
1) Download the file itself in a virtual disk.
Here's an example of how it will look.
This picture shows two types of files. Format.mdf .mds they should be together and distributed together too. And an example of the .iso format, it can be one.
2) After you have such files on your computer, you need to download the Alcohol 120% program. It can be easily downloaded and installed for free. But I will not tell you about its installation. Let's say you downloaded and installed it. Go to the folder and run the file that is highlighted in yellow in the photo. 
3) If you have not created a virtual disk, then create it. In the program, click on Virtual Disk 
A window pops up. There we do everything as in my picture and click OK. If you want more virtual disks, then put more where I have circled in red. 
After that, an alleged device with removable media (disk drive) will appear in my computer.
4) We launch our virtual file and install it.
In the Alcohol 120% program, click File (file) then Open (open) in the window that opens, select your file and click OK 
After that, this file will appear in the list. Click on it with the right mouse button. Then mount it on the device and select your created disk. After that, you should see what I have highlighted in red at the bottom. (The device name may not be the same as mine) After mounting, you should immediately start installing what was on the virtual disk (if there is a program or game and there is an installer) 
Or we go into my computer and there we find a floppy drive under the same name where you mounted the image, open it as a disk and that's it. 
Alcohol 120% - best emulator CD / DVD discs! How to quickly mount a disk image
Supported disc images: ISO, MDS, CCD, CUE, BWT, CDI, NRG (image created with Nero), PDI, B5T, ISZ, etc.
First of all, the Alcohol 120% program is needed to save your money, and you do not need to burn the game to DVD discs.
download a game quickly from the Internet (for example, with the help) in the format ISO image, throw the Alcohol program in a couple of mouse clicks, create a virtual disk and play peacefully for yourself. And now about this in a little more detail ...
The appearance of the Alcohol program.
Consider the device of the Alcohol 120% program and how this program mounts disk images.
When installing this program, you will be prompted for the already ticked boxes in items such as:
1. Shortcut on the desktop;
2. Shortcut in the start menu;
3. Visit the author's blog;
Uncheck the last two items, there is no need for extra information and shortcuts, do not litter the system (and if you do it, it doesn’t matter).
The program is installed literally within thirty seconds.
After installing the program, launch it. Their "banner" immediately pops up, about sending a report from your system unit, “Beat off” it.
When installing the program, a virtual image disk.
You can independently adjust the number of virtual disks.
You can easily see this at the bottom of the program in the second window.
Example: It will write Virtual DVD / CD Drive (G) KRMP 8TIVKXQJ.
What does it mean? anyone interested: (KRMP) is the company ID, and (8TIVKXQJ) is the product ID.
Let's configure the program:
So your discs that will be burned with this program will last longer.
Let's assume that you have the game on disk "D". Open the Alcohol 120% program and simply drag the game disk image there into the largest window. Or in the same main window, right-click and select "Add".
Only here you need to drag it to the virtual disk itself and only there. All your image is ready!)).
To deactivate the image (remove from the device), right-click on it and select the appropriate item from the drop-down menu, and it will be deleted.
Also, in the menu on the left side of this program, you can select the item "Virtual disk" and assign or deselect the number of virtual disks, if you select "0" there will be no disks.
Developer site: http://www.alcohol-soft.com
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Launch Alcohol 120. Go to the tab → Settings → Virtual Disk... We decide how many virtual disks we need, for example, one is enough for me, so in the field → Number of virtual disks choose the amount we need (by the way, this software can support up to 31 virtual disks at the same time).
Then we go to the field → File Association, where we are invited to add information about what extensions of disk images Alcohol 120 will work with. Here we can safely press the button → Select all →OK.
Then on the menu Settings → Emulation → Advanced put a check mark in all the items and click OK. In the emulation menu, we configured Alcohol 120 to bypass the protections that can be applied by the disc manufacturer for copy protection. Everything, setting up the program for our case, is over.
Mount the image
Launch Alcohol 120. In the main menu of the program, find the item Search for images.
Then a window will open Search for images, in which we are interested in the item → Search, push the button Search, we are waiting for Alcohol to find images on the computer, the found files will be displayed in a list. Next, we find the image we need, select it by clicking on it with the left mouse button. Or select all the images in bulk, as done in the example and press the button → Add selected to Alcohol.
Now you can close the window Search for images... After that, in the main menu of the program, the images that we added in the previous paragraph will appear.
Now, in order to mount the image, it is enough to double-click the left mouse button on the file we need. That's it, now you can start working with the mounted image.
To create a CD, DVD or boot disk in Alcohol 120 you need to click "Create images". A window will open in which you need to select the disk drive in which the disk from which the image will be made is located.
Alcohol 120 image creation
When the disc is read by the program, the "Start" button will become active. Before clicking this button, you need to click "Reading Options" and specify in which format we will create the image and where the finished image will be stored. Now you can press the "Start" button and wait until the Alcohol 120 disk image is completed.
Alcohol 120 how to create an image from files
To create an image from the selected files from a computer or disk, you need to click "Image mastering". A welcome window will open in which click the "Next" button. Now you need to choose from which files you need to make an image for this, press the button "Add file (s)."
Alcohol 120 instructions for collecting files for an image A window will open in which you are looking for the desired file and when you find the file, click on it (the name of this file should appear in the file name field), and now click "Open". Thus, we collect everything required files... Now when all the files are collected, press the "Next" button.
Set the ISO Alcohol 120 parameter In a new window, select the place where the image will be stored, indicate the format of the image and in the "Image name" field write the name of the image. By clicking the "Start" button, the image will be created and will be located in the location you specified.
How to open an image of Alcohol 120
First, you need to create a virtual disk using the Alcohol 120 program, for this we press "Service" - "Settings".
Settings in Alcohol 120 In the left column, click on "Virtual disk", and in the right window, indicate the number virtual drives and press the "OK" button. Now we go into the explorer, click on "This computer", we find virtual floppy drive and click on it with the right mouse button.
How to mount an image on a floppy drive in Alcohol 120 In the emerging context menu select "Mount Image" - "Open". Find the image, click on it with the left mouse button and press the "Open" button. So you can mount the image through alcohol 120 and now you can view the contents of the disc.
How to burn an Alcohol 120 image to disk
To write an image to a disc, you must click "Burn images to discs".
How to burn an Alcohol 120 disc In the window that opens, click the "Browse" button and look for the image file that we need to write to disk. You can put a check mark next to the item "Delete image file after recording" if you no longer need this file in the future. Press the "Next" button, another window will open in which you need to click "Start" and start writing to the disk (at this moment it is better not to do anything on the computer so that there is no failure due to which the disk may be damaged).
Driver error
Sometimes after installing the program, when you start it, an error appears loading Alcohol 120 drivers, which means that this version does not fit your system. To fix this error, you will need to uninstall this version and install a different one.