Virtual SD drive. Virtual optical drive and its applications

Sometimes the PC users are sharply raised how to create virtual hard Disk or CD-ROM. We study the procedure for performing these tasks in Windows 7.

Methods for creating a virtual disk, first of all depend on what option you wish to get in the end: the image of hard Media or CD / DVD. Usually, hard files The drives have the VHD extension, and ISO images are used to mount CD or DVD. In order to implement these operations, you can use the built-in Windows tools or contact third-party help.

Method 1: Daemon Tools Ultra

First of all, consider the creation of a virtual hard disk with help third-party program To work with drives -.

1. Run the application with administrator rights. Go to the tab "Instruments".



2. A list of the list of available program tools opens. Choose item "Add VHD".



3. A VHD add window opens, that is, creating a conditional hard medium. First of all, you need to register a directory where it will be placed this object. To do this, click on the button to the right of the field "Save as".



4. Opens the save window. Log in it to the directory where you want to locate a virtual drive. In field "File name" You can change the name of the object. Default is "NewVHD". Next click "Save".



5. As you can see, the selected path is now displayed in the field. "Save as" In the shell of the program Daemon Tools Ultra. Now you need to specify the size of the object. To do this, by switching the radio channel, set one of two types:
   • Fixed size;
   • Dynamic expansion.

   In the first case, the volume of the disk will be accurately given by you, and when the second item is selected as the object is filling, it will expand. The actual limit will be the size of the empty place in the area of \u200b\u200bthe HDD, where the VHD file will be placed. But even when choosing this option, still in the field "The size" It is required to install the initial volume. Just the number fits, and the unit unit is selected to the right of the field in the drop-down list. The following units of measurement are available:

   • megabytes (default);
   • gigabytes;
   • terabytes.

   Attentively, take care of the choice of the desired item, because when an error, the difference in size in comparison with the desired volume will be much more or less. Next, if necessary, you can change the name of the disk in the field "Tag". But this is not a prerequisite. Producing the actions described, to start the formation of the VHD file, press "Start".



6. The process of forming a VHD file is performed. Its speaker is displayed using the indicator.



7. After the procedure is completed, the following inscription will be displayed in the Daemon Tools Ultra shell: "The process of creating VHD has been successfully completed!". Press "Ready".



8. Thus, virtual hard storage Using the Daemon Tools Ultra program created.

Method 2: disk2vhd

If Daemon Tools Ultra is a universal tool for working with media, then disk2vhd is a highly specialized utility intended for creating VHD and VHDX files, that is, virtual hard disks. In contrast to the previous way, applying this option Actions, you can not make an empty virtual media, but only create a cast of an existing disk.

Method 3: Windows Tools

The conditional hard medium can be formed with the help of standard system tools.

1. Press "Start". Right mouse button ( PKM.) Click by name "A computer". Opens a list where you choose "Control".



2. The system management window appears. In the left of its menu in the block "Storage devices" Go up by position "Disk management".



3. The storage control tool is started. Click on position "Act" And select Option "Create virtual hDD» .



4. The creation window opens, where you should specify, in which directory will be a disk. Press "Overview".



5. Object viewing window opens. Move to the directory where you plan to host the drive file in VHD format. It is desirable that this directory is not located on the TOM section of the HDD on which the system is installed. Mandatory condition It is that the partition is not cleaned, otherwise performing the operation will not work. In field "File name" Be sure to specify the name under which you will identify this element. Then press "Save".



6. Returns in the Virtual Disc Window. In field "Location" We see the way to the directories selected in the previous step. Next you need to assign the size of the object. It is done almost the same way as in the Daemon Tools Ultra program. First of all, select one of the formats:
   • Fixed size (installed by default);
   • Dynamic expansion.

   The values \u200b\u200bof these formats correspond to the values \u200b\u200bof the types of discs that we have previously considered in Daemon Tools.

   • megabytes (default);
   • gigabytes;
   • terabytes.

   

   After performing these manipulations, press Ok.



7. Returning to the main section of the section management window, it can be observed in its lower area that a unallocated drive has now appeared. Press PKM. By his name. Typical template for this name "Disc №". In the menu that appears, select Option "Initialize disk".



8. Opened disk initialization window. Here you just click Ok.



9. After that, the list appears in the list of our item. "Online". Click PKM. on an empty place in the block "Not distributed". Choose "Create a simple volume ...".



10. The welcome window is launched "MASTERS CREATING TOMA". Press "Further".



11. The next window indicates the size of the volume. It is automatically calculated from the data that we laid when creating a virtual disk. So there is no need to change anything, just press "Further".



12. But in the next window, you need to select the letter of the name of the volume from the drop-down list. It is important that on a volume computer that has the same designation has not been. After the letter is chosen, press "Further".



13. In the next window, make changes not necessarily. But in the field "Tom Mark" You can replace the standard name. "New Tom" on any other, for example "Virtual disk". After that B. "Explorer" This element will be titled "Virtual disk k" Or with another letter you chose in the previous step. Press "Further".



14. The window will then open with the summary data that you entered in the field "Masters". If you wish to change something, please click "Back" And make changes. If everything suits you, then click "Ready".



15. After that, the created virtual drive is displayed in the Computer Management window.



16. You can proceed with "Explorer" In chapter "A computer"where there is a list of all disks connected to the PC.



17. But on some computer devices After rebooting in the specified section, this virtual disk may not appear. Then run the tool "Computer Management" and go to the department again "Disk management". Click in the menu "Act" And choose a position .



18. The drive attachment window is started. Click "Overview…".



19. File viewing tool appears. Go to the directory where you previously saved the VHD object. Highlight it and press "Open".



20. The path to the selected object will be displayed in the field. "Location" window "Attach a virtual hard disk". Click Ok.



21. The selected disk will be available again. Unfortunately, some computers have to do this operation After each restart.

Method 4: Ultraiso

Sometimes you need to create a not hard virtual disk, but virtual CD-drive and run a file in it image of ISO.. Unlike the previous one, this task cannot be performed exclusively using tools. operating system. To solve it, it is necessary to use third-party software, for example.

We figured out that virtual disks can be of two types: hard (VHD) and CD / DVD images (ISO). If the first category of objects can be created both using third-party software and using internal Windows tools, then with the ISO mounted task, you can cope only by using third-party software products.

It's no secret that the use of DVD and CDs has recently goes to recession, since there are more convenient analogues: various flash cards, removable hard drives And other wonders of technology. However, there is no attention to the technology developed relatively long ago - the creation of virtual drives and disks.

What is a virtual drive?

Virtual drives from virtual disks should be distinguished.

Virtual drive is a device that has the same functions as physically real drive: a disk recording, reading and so on.

Virtual disk is analogy that can be read or recorded using a virtual drive. Most often, the object of recording to a virtual disk is the so-called disk image, which is an ISO file.

In this case, the virtual drive and the disk cannot be transferred, scratch or folded into the envelope. These devices are virtual, that is, do not exist physically. We emulate their presence in our computer.

Why do you need a virtual drive?

There are a number of reasons for using virtual drives and disks is justified:

• The ability to quickly rewrite the disk to the computer without spending the purchase of a DVD disk.
• Maximum security. Real disk or drive can be scratched, hit, break. Virtual devices are devoid of such a threat.
• The ability to create as many virtual drives and the more discs.
• Convenience in the transfer of information on the Internet.

Thus, we get a flexible mechanism for recording, reading and transmitting information, without without spending on the purchase of additional drives and piles of disks, this approach is obsolete every day. You do not have to mess with packing discs, you do not need to learn to install and customize the drive in your computer. Just have the Windows 7 operating system installed on the computer and higher.

How to create a virtual drive?

Having understood that it gives us to use virtual drives, go to the most interesting stage - creating them on your computer.
To date, there are plenty of programs that make it possible to implement this. The most proven time and convenient to use are Alcohol 120 and Ultraiso. We will analyze the use of both programs, after which everyone can decide for themselves which of the programs is more convenient.

Virtual drive for Windows 7 with Ultraiso

Download this program from an official or any other source. It is advisable to use last version 9.6.5, although the use of older versions is not critical.

During installation, at the stage of selecting additional tasks, you must install a check mark on "Install ISO CD / DVD Emulator"

Ready. After installation, go to my computer and see that the virtual drive has already been created:

Run the program. In the upper left corner we see a disk image, which was also created automatically. To the right of it is shown its contents, which is still empty. Below is the directory of files of our computer, it is from here that we can choose files and send them to our virtual disk:

We see that the data was added to the virtual disk directory. We go to file -\u003e Save as:

Click on the "Mount to virtual drive" icon:

We are convinced that the path to the file is set correctly and click "Mount":

Go to my computer, open the contents of the virtual disk and see that the PACTIONER.php file is recorded on it:

Thus, in just a minute, we created a virtual drive and mounted a disk image on it. In the example, a regular file was used, instead of it could be, for example, some game that you need to emulate from the disk so as not to get a disk every time and not to load it into a real drive. The recording of such things looks likewise: select the disk files with the game in the directory, throw them into a virtual disk, emulate it and ready. Real disk you no longer need.

Virtual drive for Windows 7 with Alcohol 120

Download and install the program. After installing the program, we see that Alcohol 120 shares physical drives from virtual:

Virtual drive f is ready for use, for this it is enough to transfer the necessary ISO files in the field above and select the desired function. To write an image to a real disk, choose Image Burning Wizard. In this case, we want to emulate our image on a virtual drive, so add the same image that you created in Ultraiso, press the right mouse button and select Mount on Device:

Ready. We will open new Disc With recorded PACTIONER.PHP file:

RESULTS

We reviewed theoretical Foundation Virtual drives and disks, dealt with programs that allow this technology. Undoubtedly, the use of these things will save your time and nerves, which is very important in the age of information technology.

Daemon Tools. is an best Program To create virtual disks and the implementation of their installation (emulation), which significantly reduces the location on the disk and allow you to create backups All the necessary files. The main differences of this program from many others are similar to the fact that the developers of the utility put the interests of their users much higher than, everything else. The evidence is constantly updating the versions of the program, which is becoming more and more convenient to use and universal when applied. The main advantage of the utility can be attributed:
- Ability to create images (CD / DVD / Blu-ray) as a file and mount them.
- Ability to replace the physical wear of all types of disks.
- A convenient and clear interface will not be absolutely useful to use the program by all user categories.
- allows you to use everything possible formats Images.
- provides an ability to copy boot disks, and also allows you to protect the saved files using the password, which will provide full security For storage of the file.
In order to get the opportunity to use the program, you need to do the following steps.
First you need to download and install the program on personal Computer:

After that select the desired program components for use and define the program installation folder. Installation will take care of minutes.

After installation, you need to start the program and select the image creation tab, after which the window will open in which you want to select the drive drive parameters, write speed, and the place of the new disk image. Select the file for the image and its format. It is advisable to specify the maximum read speed and, if necessary, you can specify the protection password.

At the end of the selection of the parameters, you need to click on the Start button and the image will be created automatically to the previously specified folder.
Enough convenient interface and simplicity when using the main advantages of this program, which is designed to significantly secure and expand the range of features of your disk images Up to 4 different units that will replace the need to save the discs and fear their breakdowns.

), After all, it has all the attributes necessary for this. Nevertheless, the main attractiveness of the product lies precisely in the features of working with images of optical disks.

Alcohol 120% allows you to create CD images and DVD discsCauses to straighten with some copy protection, allows for up to 31 virtual drives. However, even the simplest CSS encryption used in the manufacture of licensed video products, this program is unable.

The basic program management tools are focused on the left sidebar. In the image creation mode, you can share the file to the arbitrary segments. In addition, you can enable the read error mode. There is a whole group of protection based on emulation of damage to the disk. Standard method You will not be able to read its contents, because in the most interesting place there will be a read error. Alcohol 120% allows you to skip such sectors, still creating a source disk image file.

Depending on the size of the source data, you will be offered various formats of images. Standard CDs can be copied to the CCD, CUE and ISO images, but if you are working with a DVD filled with more than 2GB, then you will have to use MDS format.

The following two panel menu items allow you to record. optical disk From the image on the hard disk, as well as make an accurate copy of the CD / DVD media.

Alcohol 120% Contains image search tool inside local file System. You choose the types of desired images, and also specify the search area. In addition, you can switch to the use mode of additional extensions. In this case, the search will include files of any types.

The program allows you to independently change the letters of logical partitions of virtual drives, set the regional DVD code, output the sound of analog audio to any virtual device (Direct Sound), flexibly adjust the location modes of optical disks.

On the official project page you can also familiarize yourself with the Alcohol program 52%, which has no own optical disk recording module.

The program places your icon in the system tray. The left mouse button on the icon opens a list of all connected images, and also allows you to make them a common shutdown. Using the right mouse button, you can call the program properties.

The first paragraph of the Virtual CD / DVD-ROM menu focuses features that allow you to specify the number of virtual drives, as well as control the connection / disabling images. The emulation menu contains a list of all available protection supported by the program. You can include their emulation, both individually and all at once.

Program settings include only a few points. You can download the program along with the start of the operating system, automatically mount images, use the secure mode.

By default, the icon in the system tray has a red color. Depending on the formats of connected images and types of protection, the color may vary on green and blue.

In the last three guidebooks, 30 programs were considered, one way or another related to copying information from optical media.

Over the past year, the positive trend of the gradual transition from the piracy to the more or less civilized use of licensed products has emerged in Russia. Official publishers finally began to pursue a clear and flexible pricing policy, making an accessible viewing of licensed films for wide segments of the population. Often, a DVD with a licensed film costs as much as a pirated analogue.

There is nothing more expensive than your health. It is said that the fault of all diseases is our nervous system. If you are constantly disturbing something, if you feel fear, a remorse of conscience, then the exacerbation of many diseases is not far off. Permanent from low-quality screen copies and vague DVDRip, a bustle of restrictions for free accounts on file sharing servers, wolf laws of peer-in-room networks, mountains unidentified chickles on the shelves - all this does not add health, peace.

The other day I decided to upload a movie from the network that I have long wanted to see. When the download reached approximately half, the connection was cut off, and the server did not support the designer. I was very upset, I began to worry. But it seems that my experiences are not worth a penny, I got dressed and ran into the nearest store, buying a license disk there. The disc was protected from copying using CSS encryption, but I did everything a copy on the hard disk using one of the programs considered in program guidebooks. Suddenly, the disk is scratched.

I really hope friends that you will not use the last articles described in the last articles. software in illegal purposes. And the point here is not in high morality. Simply, take care of yourself, your health.

Users made early "zero", probably remember those times when movies, computer games, Programs and music were delivered to our computers only with the help of the CD / DVDs distributed at that time. About the free download of data on the Internet, torrents and YouTube still know no one knew. The situation was saved by optical drives, with which the information was transferred to the hard disk of the computer.

The rapid development of Internet technologies has questioned the need to have such a component as a "drive". In the current stationary systems and laptops, rarely meet the presence of a drive. All because of the virtual disks, which were ousted "Dwarfs" and became a common phenomenon. However, not everyone managed to have a comfortable transition to new technology. In this article we will try to correct this situation and explain in detail the essence of the creation process, the nuances of use and other questions that have repeatedly arose with everyone who does not know how to use a virtual CD ROM.

When it might take

Many may be doubtful to use the introduction of some innovation and just further use an optical drive, overwriting images and information on physical media. However, the archaic option loses in some cases, the most common of which are:

• Lack of or malfunction of the drive. Any detail has no eternal life. Sooner or later, a problem may arise, and it's good if it happens not at the most necessary moment (that according to the "law of meanness" occurs often). In addition, the Sistemnik, who receives a disk with information from you, may simply not be an optical drive. But the virtual CD-ROM is on any modern PC (if you dedicate for some time creating it).
• Multichannel. I have rarely when computers came across, in which several drives there were immediately. Juses, often working with recording and reading disks, had to constantly rearrange CD / DVD. There are no such problems with virtual disks, which means you can simultaneously work with several.
• Ease of data transfer. To exchange information recorded on the "Dawn", you need to personally convey the carrier of the host. In the case of virtually recorded images - transmission is carried out online, on the Internet.

Creating a Virtual CD-ROM

For reading virtual images (ISO; MDF, BWI, MDS and Other files), you need to create a virtual CD-ROM, which, like optical drivePlays (emulates) data from the drive. You can make a virtual disk using a special software, such as Daemon Tools., Virtual Drive, their principle of operation is identical, and the functionality is largely similar. For example, we took the last of the listed, since with its capabilities and tools it is very easy to cope with the user even far from such processes.

1. First, you download the Alcohol installer 120% on the link from the Yandex Disk, or on the official website of the developer. Install on your computer.
2. Run the program. First of all, we need to create a virtual CD drive. To do this, select the option in the "Settings" section. "Virtual disk".

1. In the menu that opens, manually select to-in virtual disks created. Confirm the result by pressing the OK button.

The drive has been successfully created that we can observe in the "Device" panel or in My Computer folder.

1. Now open the finished image. To do this, select the "File" tab, and in the menu that opens, click on "Open ..." (or simply use the combination keys Ctrl + O).

1. We find the file-image you need, allocate its LKM and click on the "Open" button.

The image is added to the processing library.

1. Now you need to read the previously added file. To do this, select the PCM image, and in the drop-down menu select the option "Mount to the device".

Work is done. The result can be observed in the "Computer" folder, where the installer placed in the virtual drive will be among the reading devices.

After the operations carried out in the image, it is necessary to extract it from the virtual drive. To do this, using the Alcohol 120% program, in the menu of the existing drives, select our BD-ROM with the right mouse button and select the function in the list "Dismantle the image". The disk will empty again.

If you want to remove the virtual drive at all, it is necessary to repeat similar action, as when it is created:

1. IN available devices Click on DVD / CD PCM drive. In the list that appears, click "Properties".

1. Back to set the value "0", in the selection section of the Virtual Disc selection and click "OK".

Adding a virtual hard disk

The above opportunities are available to many for a decade. The popularity of using a virtual reader device has caused a similar phenomenon, called a virtual hard disk. This technology allows you to create a file (having a VHD extension), which in the conductor is displayed as a standard partition on the hard disk. The rationality of using the Virtual-drive Each decides: some thus reorganize free space on volumes, others even install the OS. You should not forget about the ability to create a secure file container, thus limiting information from the encroachment of other users.

We will create a virtual hard disk using standard tools Windows (this feature is available in windows systems 7, 8.1, 10). However, and with the help of special software you can achieve a similar result. Daemon Tools Ultra, as well as disk2vhd, is coped to the most effectively with this task. These programs have separate sections on the creation of virtual disks (both drives and drives of similar HDDs).

1. Open the "Run" service while simultaneously pressing the Win + R keys. In the empty string, enter the DiskMGMT.msc command and click "OK".

1. Service will open "Disk management". In the Control menu, activate the "Action" tab, and select "Create a Virtual Hard Disk".

1. In the window that appears, you need to specify the location created file, Select the format (VHD / VHDX), as well as determine the possibility of expanding the file.

1. The file is created, but the disc is not initialized. Press on the PKM disc, select the option "Initialize disk".

1. In the next window, you must specify a section style (we advise the GUID if you intend to limit the standard features of working with the selected space).

Connecting a disc after rebooting PC

Unfortunately, working with a virtual hard disk requires re-connecting the VHD / VHDX file after each session is completed. Fortunately, create a new disk, initialize the section and create Tom we do not have to. To return a virtual disk to work (emulate data), you must perform the following steps:

We hope, with the help of our article you have learned how to create a virtual disk, and also identified for yourself the use of its use.

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