No matter which format you are using for your images of the original CDs/DVDs, DAEMON Tools Lite will handle it. No need to use the original CDs or DVDs all the time, which brings several advantages. This way you can use backups of your real CDs or DVDs and mount the images to access the stored data. lets you create virtual devices for various formats to ease your 'CD/DVD life'. Version reviewed: 4.40.This well-known product by DAEMON Tools Disc Soft Ltd. Daemon Tools Lite is a great application to enable this functionality. Pros: Speeds up drive access, works with CD's, DVD's and Blue Ray discs.Ĭonclusion: If you have the hard drive space and don't want or need to carry an optical drive, a virtual drive is a great alternative. DAEMON Tools products work with variety of image types. You could also use images created with other programs. Virtual drives can create and read ISO, MDS/MDF and MDX image files from original discs inserted in physical CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu-ray drives. Disk images are mounted by virtual in My Computer. Select a virtual drive then choose a disc image you want to mount. Virtual drives will appear in your OS just like real ones. It's more convenient to have one MDX image instead of two MDS and MDF files.ĭaemon Tools Lite also enables you to emulate up to 4 CD/DVD virtual drives on your PC. MDX format is designed to make it easier to store disc images.

Daemon tools will let you create disc image files in DAEMON Tools native format - Media Data eXtended (*.mdx). With Daemon Tools, you do two very important tasks – emulate a CD/DVD ROM drive and create a disk image. With storage media as cheap as it is having a utility to emulate a CD/DVD ROM drive can make a lot of sense. Thankfully, there's Daemon Tools Lite to help remedy this issue. In many cases, they not only take up a lot of space, but compared to other spinning media, the access can be slow. Optical drives take a great deal of space in a portable computer. Speed up your optical disk drive access with today's cool utility.

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