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, OSFMount, CDemu and TotalMounter.

Virtual CD alternatives are mainly ISO Mounting Tools but may also be ISO Creators or DVD Burners. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Virtual CD.

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Virtual CD

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With Virtual CD you can create compressed 1:1 copies (virtual CDs/DVDs/BDs) to your hard drive. You can then store your...

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Virtual CloneDrive
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Free • Proprietary
ISO Mounting Tool
Windows
36 Virtual CloneDrive alternatives
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...
- - Virtual CloneDrive is the most popular Windows alternative to Virtual CD.
- - Virtual CloneDrive is the most popular free alternative to Virtual CD.
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Alcohol
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Freemium • Proprietary
Disc Burner
ISO Creator
DVD Burner
Windows
42 Alcohol alternatives
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.
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1. PortableAlcohol can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Built-in Burner
CD/DVD Burning
Virtual Disk
Bundleware
The free version of Alcohol 52% contains an optional adware toolbar bundled. It also installs Smart File Advisor without allowing you to uncheck this option during setup.
OSFMount
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Free • Proprietary
ISO Mounting Tool
Windows
38 OSFMount alternatives
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.
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OSFMount Features
1. LightweightOSFMount consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
Mounting drives
CDemu
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Free • Open Source
Linux
BSD
38 CDemu alternatives
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.
- - CDemu is the most popular Linux alternative to Virtual CD.
- - CDemu is the most popular Open Source alternative to Virtual CD.
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CDemu Features
Virtual Disk
Emulation
Sits in the System Tray
Low resource footprint
Works at kernel level
TotalMounter
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Freemium • Proprietary
Windows
36 TotalMounter alternatives
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...
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Virtual Disk
WinMount
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Freemium • Proprietary
Windows
34 WinMount alternatives
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.
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WinMount Features
Virtual Disk
Mounting drives
Emulation
Discontinued
The program is no longer updated. Last version, V3.5.1018, released in October 201, can be still downloaded from the official website.
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Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel
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Free • Proprietary
ISO Mounting Tool
Windows
25 Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel alternatives
This free program for lets you create a virtual CD drive on your hard disk. The "32k" program load ISO Images (iso), CDFS (cdfs), Joilet (jo), Rock Ridge (rock), UDF (udf), and any standard iso format.
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1. PortableVirtual CD-ROM Control Panel can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Virtual Disk
Phantom Burner
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Freemium • Proprietary
Windows
17 Phantom Burner alternatives
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...
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Discontinued
Official website/app unavailable.
DVDFab Virtual Drive
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
23 DVDFab Virtual Drive alternatives
DVDFab Virtual Drive is a virtual emulator for both DVD and Blu-ray. It can emulate 18 drives and mount DVD/Blu-ray ISO image files created by DVDFab and other programs.
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DVDFab Virtual Drive Features
Virtual Disk
Emulation
BurnCDCC
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
27 BurnCDCC alternatives
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.
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BurnCDCC Features
1. PortableBurnCDCC can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
ISO Toolkit
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Free • Proprietary
ISO Creator
Windows
34 ISO Toolkit alternatives
"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...
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ISO Toolkit Features
1. PortableISO Toolkit can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
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Official website unavailable.
ISODisk
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
39 ISODisk alternatives
ISODisk is a free and powerful ISO disk image file tool that allows you to create up to 20 virtual CD/DVD drives, mount .ISO disk images and access the them as if it were burned to CD or DVD. This free program can also quickly create ISO image files from a CD/DVD-ROM.
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Virtual Disk
Emulation