Virtual CD Alternatives

Virtual CD is described as 'With Virtual CD you can create compressed 1:1 copies (virtual CDs/DVDs/BDs) to your hard drive. You can then store your originals safely in a cabinet! Your virtual CDs are then available with a simple click or even automatically with the autostart of the corresponding program' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Virtual CD for Windows, Linux and BSD. The best Virtual CD alternative is Virtual CloneDrive, which is free. Other great apps like Virtual CD are Alcohol, CDemu, OSFMount and DVDFab Virtual Drive.

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    Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD/DVD drive, however it exists only virtually. Image files of various formats (.iso, .bin, etc) can be mounted onto a virtual drive from your hard-disk or from a network drive and used in the same manner as inserting...

    32 Virtual CloneDrive alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
    • Virtual CloneDrive is the most popular Windows alternative to Virtual CD.

    • Virtual CloneDrive is the most popular free alternative to Virtual CD.

    • Virtual CloneDrive is Free and ProprietaryVirtual CD is Paid and Proprietary
  2. Alcohol icon
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    Alcohol is a powerful Windows CD and DVD burning software that makes it easy to create backups of DVDs* and CDs. In addition, the program lets you store your most used CDs as images on your computer, so you can call them up at the click of a button.

    37 Alcohol alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Bundleware

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. CDemu icon
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    CDEmu is a CD/DVD-ROM device emulator for linux, licensed under GPL v2 or later. It is a from-scratch rewrite of the legacy CDEmu project, which was started by Robert Penz.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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    • CDemu is the most popular Linux alternative to Virtual CD.

    • CDemu is the most popular Open Source alternative to Virtual CD.

    • CDemu is Free and Open SourceVirtual CD is Paid and Proprietary
  4. OSFMount icon
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    OSFMount allows you to mount local disk image files (bit-for-bit copies of a disk partition) in Windows with a drive letter. You can then analyze the disk image file with PassMark OSForensics by using the mounted volume's drive letter.

    30 OSFMount alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Emulates up to 18 virtual DVD, Blu-ray, and Ultra HD drives on Windows, mounts and unmounts .iso, .img, .miniso, .nrg, and other formats, integrates with Windows Explorer, supports shell context menu, offers auto-mount, auto-unmount, multilingual UI, and is free to use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. WinMount icon
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    WinMount is a powerful archive and virtual drive tool. It can compress and decompress. It also can mount ZIP, mount RAR, mount MOU, mount cd dvd and hdd image as a virtual drive.

    27 WinMount alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued
    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Phantom Burner is a virtual BD-RE/DVD+RW/DVD-RAM/CD-R/BD-ROM/DVD-ROM/CD-ROM emulator software. It not only allows you to mount disc image files as virtual CD, DVD or Blu-ray discs, but also let you create disc image files by burn to the virtual BD/DVD/CD burner, from using any...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. TotalMounter icon
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    TotalMounter is only free software that allows user to mount virtual CD/DVD burner that is allowing to directly burn data onto an ISO file, not to an optical disk (such as CD or DVD). After mounting virtual burner for the first time, system will recognize it and automatically...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. BurnCDCC icon
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    This utility is used to burn an ISO file to a CD/DVD/BD disc. Many new systems come with a limited CD/DVD software package that lacks the ability to burn ISO files.

    20 BurnCDCC alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. ISO Toolkit icon
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    "ISO Toolkit" is a free ISO manipulation tool which allows you to create ISO image, copy ISO image from CD/DVD, convert ISO, NRG, CUE images, extract content of ISO, NRG, BIN and CUE images, mount ISO, NRG, BIN and CUE images and burn ISO image files in Windows...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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