How to use virtual drive? What is a virtual optical drive?

Friends or computer enthusiasts who often play computer games should be familiar with virtual optical drives. Play CD games rely on it, the game speed is greatly improved, and it is very convenient to use. At present, the friends of Computer City installed in order to save the installed budget, not buying optical drives is very common. In the past, the optical drive was installed to install the system. Now it is replaced by a more compact virtual drive or U disk system. The most important one is the virtual drive. You only need to install the virtual drive software on the computer. In the absence of an optical drive, most of the functions of the optical drive are free. All of the following editors will introduce the virtual drive with the virtual drive and how to use the virtual drive!

What is a virtual drive? A virtual CD-ROM is a tool that simulates the operation of an actual CD/DVD-ROM drive. It can generate the same CD image as the CD-ROM function installed on your computer. The general CD-ROM can do the same thing as the virtual CD-ROM. The principle is to first virtualize one or more virtual CD-ROM drives, store the application software and image files on the CD-ROM on the hard disk, and generate an image file of the virtual CD-ROM drive, and then you can put the image file into the virtual CD-ROM drive. Use, so when you want to launch this application in the future, you don't have to put the CD in the CD-ROM drive, you don't have to wait for the slow start of the CD-ROM drive, just tap on the insert icon, and the virtual CD is immediately loaded into the virtual CD-ROM drive. Fast and convenient. Common virtual drives include VDM, Daemon tools, and more.

What is the use of virtual drive?

The virtual optical drive has many functions that cannot be achieved by ordinary optical drives. For example, the CD is not used during operation, even if the optical drive is not used, multiple CD softwares can be executed at the same time, and the processing capability is fast and easy to carry. High-speed CD-ROM high-speed CD-ROM: The virtual optical drive runs directly on the hard disk, and the speed can reach 200X. The response speed of the virtual optical drive is very fast, and the video file is smooth and non-stop. Generally, the transmission speed of the hard disk is about 10-15MB/S, which translates into the optical drive transmission speed (150K/S) equal to 100X. Most motherboards today integrate Ultra DMA hard disk controllers with transfer speeds up to 33M/S (220X). The following sections list the common effects of virtual optical drives.

1 virtual optical drive is the best companion for notebooks

The best companion for notebooks: virtual optical drive can solve the problem that laptops have no optical drive, too slow speed, easy to carry, and power consumption of optical drives; Copy it from another computer or network.

2 virtual CD-ROM can copy discs

Copying a CD-ROM drive only produces a corresponding virtual CD file when copying a CD, so it is very easy to manage; not hundreds of files in the CD-ROM Copying to the hard disk, this method may not work correctly, because many CD software will require running on the CD-ROM drive, and deletion management is also a problem; the virtual CD-ROM completely solves these problems.

3 virtual optical drives can run multiple discs

Virtual optical drives can run multiple different disc applications at the same time. For example, we can watch Encyclopedia Britannica on one optical drive while using another Taiwan CD-ROM installation "Jinshan PowerWord 2000", using a real optical drive to listen to CD records. Such a requirement can not be done on an optical drive anyway.

4 virtual optical drive with compression function

Compression: virtual optical drive generally uses professional compression and instant decompression algorithm for some uncompressed files, the compression rate can reach more than 50%; Instant decompression, image playback will not be distorted.

6 virtual optical drive with CD tower function

Virtual optical drive can completely replace the expensive optical disc tower, can directly access unlimited optical discs at the same time, without waiting for the replacement, fast, easy to use, no There is no hardware maintenance trouble in the space.

7 virtual drive can be used to install games or large applications

Virtual drive can also install games for your computer, some games are downloaded as mirror files, so you must use To the virtual drive, it has created a good platform for some gamers.

8 virtual drive can be used to install the operating system

pe under the green virtual drive, is the best choice for installing xp and other systems, first load the iso file on the hard disk, then enter the virtual The CD can be used to run the setup file. Of course, if it is gho, the file can be seen, and the ghost browser can also be easily installed under pe! It is very easy and fast to install the system without a CD! In addition, the current U disk installation system is also very simple, interested users can go to learn more.

There are still many functions of virtual optical drives. I will not introduce them here. The above eight virtual optical drives are our common and practical functions. Here is how to use virtual optical drives.

How to use virtual drive?

There are a lot of virtual software that can be found in the network. For example, there are many virtual CD-ROM softwares such as Daemon tools, WinMount, Alcohol 120%, Virtual Drive, etc. Below we use Daemon tools virtual drive The software introduces the use of the virtual optical drive, and other software principles are similar.

Daemon tools virtual drive software interface

Daemon tools is a free software, the latest version 4.40 or higher, have simplified Chinese version, we recommend using the 3.47 version, Chinese interface, operate Convenient. It can run on most windows systems. Daemon tools support ISO, CCD, CUE, MDS and other standard image files, and it also supports physical drive features, such as the automatic operation of the CD. Double-click the installation file, click the install button, and then click Next to complete the installation. It should be noted that the installation needs to restart the operating system to take effect.

After restarting, the daemon tools will be loaded automatically. There will be a daemon tools icon in the taskbar at the bottom right corner of the screen. Right click on the icon and a menu will pop up with a total of 5 submenus. The following highlights the functions of the virtual CD/DVD-ROM, simulation project and options.

Virtual CD/DVD-ROM Menu

1. First set the number of virtual drives, daemon tools can support up to 4 virtual drives, you can set according to your needs. Generally setting one is enough. In some cases, such as your game installation file has a total of 4 image files, then you can set the number of virtual drive to 4, so you can use the game to change the CD image from time to time.

After setting the number of drives, you can see 2 new CD-ROM icons in ‘My Computer & rsquo;.

2. Now you can load the image file.

Select the installation image file, and then a window will pop up, let you select the image file, select the image file, and click the Open button.