Virtual Drive Creator

Phantom CD
Free - Phantombility, Inc

Phantom CD is a FREE virtual CD/DVD drive. Mount your CD/DVD image files in Windows. Use disc images for your CD and DVD backup. Replace your physical discs to avoid wear and tear on your optical drive, and to avoid disc problems resulted from heat, scratch, and dirt. Enjoy reading speed up to 200 times faster than a physical disc, allowing your application and games to start and run faster.

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Phantom Burner
$29.95 - Phantombility, Inc

Phantom Burner is a Blu-ray BD-RE/DVD+RW/DVD-RAM/CD-R/BD-ROM/DVD-ROM/CD-ROM burner drive. It not only allows you to mount disc image files as virtual CD or DVD or BD discs, but also let you create disc image files by burn to the virtual drive, from using any disc burning software. By supporting standard SCSI commands, it is compatible with most burning software, whether it is Nero, Sonic or Roxio, Windows Media Player, RealPlayer or iTunes.

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R-Drive Image
$44.95 - R-tools technology Inc.

R-Drive Image creates disk image files for backup or duplication purposes. Disk image file contains exact, byte-by-byte copy of a hard drive, partition or logical disk and can be created with various compression levels on the fly without stopping Windows OS. Drive image files can be stored in a variety of places, including various removable media and then restored to the original disks, on any other partitions or even on a hard drive's free space

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P-Encrypt Secure Drive
$39.95 - CadabraSoftware

P-Encrypt Secure Drive (PESD) is a program that can create virtual encrypted disk drives. These encrypted images can be connected to a windows drive letter. PESD uses the most trusted and acceptable encryption algorithms available today, which include AES, Blowfish, Twofish, TripleDES, and Camellia. PESD includes a powerful feature set: variable disk images sizes, drive firewall, stealth image mode, auto-run/auto-close program, plus more.

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