Virtual dvd burner

[MotzTech]

I'm looking for some software that can emulate a dvd burner on a windows machine that can create iso files. Sort of like magicdisc does with dvd roms. I'm trying to create images of some system recovery discs without using up DVDs in the process. Does anyone know of any software that can do this?

 

[Vicenarian]

ImgBurn?


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[Knightsman]

Dvd decrypter
Dvd fab
Daemon tools

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[strollin]

ImgBurn to create the ISO's then put them on a Zalman VE-200 to store and utilize them.

 

[PC Ops]

Imgburn!!

Fillerrrrrrrr****

 

[Martyn]

CDBurnerXP use it all the time on my Win 7 machine

 

[MotzTech]

Perhaps I should have been more clear, I need a program that creates a selectable dvd burner drive on the computer. The software used to create the recovery disc won't write to the hard drive, it will only select a dvd burner. All the tools mentioned can create images from within the program, but from I can tell, no create a virtual dvd burner that can be selected by other programs. Please correct me if I'm wrong about this.

 

[Knightsman]

Perhaps I should have been more clear, I need a program that creates a selectable dvd burner drive on the computer. The software used to create the recovery disc won't write to the hard drive, it will only select a dvd burner. All the tools mentioned can create images from within the program, but from I can tell, no create a virtual dvd burner that can be selected by other programs. Please correct me if I'm wrong about this.

Daemon tools pro will do this

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[Martyn]

Sorry misread your post

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

After seeing Microsoft support use the following program quite a few times (while doing remote EasyAssist sessions with their server support)......I started using it for my needs over Daemon

http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html

 

[altrenda]

Power ISO among others will mount a virtual drive.

 

[Lpusedyou]

Virtual Clone Drive

After seeing Microsoft support use the following program quite a few times (while doing remote EasyAssist sessions with their server support)......I started using it for my needs over Daemon

http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html

I second the recommendation for Slysoft's Virtual Clone-drive. It's worked time and time again for me and is very simple to use.

 

[PaulG]

Its been a while since I've used it but Virtual CD will allow you to create virtual DVD drives and much more. I seem to remember it has virtual burning capabilities as well.

http://www.virtualcd-online.com/ - you can download a trial version.

edit... just checked and yes it does have a virtual burner

 

[PC Ops]

I'm looking for some software that can emulate a dvd burner on a windows machine that can create iso files. Sort of like magicdisc does with dvd roms. I'm trying to create images of some system recovery discs without using up DVDs in the process. Does anyone know of any software that can do this?

My first response was IMGBurn... But I guess I've (we've) misunderstood.

Perhaps I should have been more clear, I need a program that creates a selectable dvd burner drive on the computer. The software used to create the recovery disc won't write to the hard drive, it will only select a dvd burner. All the tools mentioned can create images from within the program, but from I can tell, no create a virtual dvd burner that can be selected by other programs. Please correct me if I'm wrong about this.

Virtual Clone Drive is mentioned a couple of times but this only emulates a read-only drive. Nothing bad about VCD btw! Like ImgBurn I've been using VCD since errrr... forever. Imgburn + VCD = golden combo

Back on-topic: I too think Virtual CD is the way to go. Out of curiosity I just downloaded and installed the demo and it does perfectly what you ask: when creating a recovery disc you can burn it directly to the virtual drive.

What I don't understand: if creating a recovery disc is the only thing you want to do then a real dvd is a lot cheaper... Burn a copy to a DVD-RW, change it back to an iso and voilá. The DVD can be used again of course. This brings us back to ImgBurn

Unless you have larger plans than a recovery disc of course.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Virtual Clone Drive is mentioned a couple of times but this only emulates a read-only drive. Nothing bad about VCD btw! Like ImgBurn I've been using VCD since errrr... forever. Imgburn + VCD = golden combo

Has an option..changes the icon to red or something..but there's a burn option....pay for though but it's cheap.

 

[MotzTech]

I just downloaded the demo for Virtual CD and it worked! I know I can burn them to DVD-RWs and then create ISOs from there, but it's more efficient to burn them right to a hard drive. I'm willing to spend a few more dollars if it means one less thing for me to have to do manually. My time is money, and it's worth more then the program costs

Thanks everyone

 

[PC Ops]

Has an option..changes the icon to red or something..but there's a burn option....pay for though but it's cheap.

I looked all over their website and found nothing about a burn-to-virtual-drive-option in Virtual Clone Drive. I did find a thread where someone suggested adding this feature. They didn't seem very interested though.

If you're sure VCD has this function now (linked thread is from 2008) I'd like to know more about it.

 

[Rosco]

magic iso works great like daemon tools