Daemon Tools, mounting CD images...wooohooo!

[SiliconJon]

Anybody out there looking for a program that can mount an image of your game CD so you need not insert it anymore? Put that CD back in the closet where it belongs! And download CloneCD and Daemon Tools 3.33. CloneCD comes with a 21-day fully functional evaluation period, which you will use to create your images. Daemon Tools 3.33 will let you mount that image, fooling your computer into thinking you have the CD in the drive without having it in the drive!

Just wanted to share this, as a lot of folks have asked me about doing such a thing, and I just now got around to finding the software and doing it. And it's fan-freagin' tastic. My kids (an myself ) are hard on my game CD's. Now I can ditch them (not permanently of course)..

Daemon tools: http://www.daemon-tools.cc/portal/do...o_hide=disable

CloneCD [Demo]: http://www.elby.ch/en/products/clone_dvd/index.html

There are other imaging programs out there. I was unable to get Nero to image most of my games, though, as their copyrights are not bypassable through Nero's reading ability. Though Nero does just fine with burning the images. And from what I've read about Daemon Tools is you can then burn the image [from CloneCD] with [Nero] and use Daemon Tools to emulate the copy-protection scheme from the original, tricking the system into believing the original is still there. Haven't tried all that yet, though. But I will, just for the phun of it, even though I don't care to run from backups so long as I can just mount the images. (big drives are CHEAP nowadays)

i use alcohol 120%

[ShawnD1]

I use CDSpace, it's what they use at local cyber cafes
It's not free though I'm afraid

Cdspace is another great program also.

[implexant]

I hate loading CDs for games, so I use clone CD to copy em to my HD in ccd format, then mount using Daemon. I have 4 on my HD right now, works swell. Just make sure your drive letters don't conflict with mapped network drives or something else. I ran into that problem just the other day.

-Chris

[ShawnD1]

Also make sure that the virtual drive you make is the next letter after the last physical drive. If your hard drive is C, CD drive is D, your virtual drive should be E. I used to use the program Hekko Virtual CD and it wasn't able to play BF1942 because BF1942 was looking for the CD in the physical drives and the next letter after the physical drive. Hekko was only able to set the virtual drive as Z:.

[SiliconJon]

Is there a way to increase the amount of mountable image drives in Daemon??? I could just use the other 8 in CloneCD, but seems I read somewhere that Daemon could mount 23 images...maybe that was another program.

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Ah hah! That was GameDrive's homepage...anybody used that one?

[muno]

4 drives says the daemon tools on my systray.
(I'm running 3.26)
-M

[implexant]

right click on the icon in the tray, select virtual CD/DVD-ROM, then select set number of devices.

-Chris

Alcohol is one of the finer CD burning and imaging/mounting programs out there. Astounding configurability and ease of use.