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 gBurner Virtual Drive.

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

Virtual CD

Paid • Proprietary

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...

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Virtual CD alternatives page was last updated Mar 3, 2016

Virtual CloneDrive
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
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application type
- ISO Mounting Tool
Platforms
- Windows
Virtual CloneDrive Features
Virtual Disk
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Discontinued
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Virtual CloneDrive VS Virtual CD
Is Virtual CloneDrive a good alternative to Virtual CD?
- 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

Alcohol
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
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application types
- Disc Burner
- ISO Creator
Platforms
- Windows
Alcohol Features
1. Portable
2. Built-in Burner
3. DVD Burner
4. CD/DVD Burning
5. Virtual Disk
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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.

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CDemu
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.
31 CDemu alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- ISO Mounting Tool
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
CDemu Features
1. Virtual Disk
2. Emulation
3. Sits in the System Tray
4. Linux-based
5. Low resource footprint
6. Works at kernel level
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CDemu VS Virtual CD
Is CDemu a good alternative to Virtual CD?
- 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

OSFMount
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.
31 OSFMount alternatives
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application type
- ISO Mounting Tool
Platforms
- Windows
OSFMount Features
Lightweight
Mounting drives
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gBurner Virtual Drive
gBurner Virtual Drive is an application that lets you create and manage virtual drives on your PC. This application can be especially useful for users who work with ISO images and need to mount multiple virtual disks at a time.
39 gBurner Virtual Drive alternatives
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
gBurner Virtual Drive Features
Virtual Disk
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WinMount
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
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
WinMount Features
Supports Zip files
Virtual Disk
Mounting drives
Emulation
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Discontinued
The program is no longer updated. Last version, V3.5.1018, released in October 201, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Warning
trojan horse

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TotalMounter
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...
35 TotalMounter alternatives
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
TotalMounter Features
Virtual Disk
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+5
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ExplorerFab
A full-featured toolset designed to address issues that Windows File Explorer cannot, including burning a disc, extracting ISO files, emulating virtual drives, downloading videos from 1000+ websites, compressing and decompressing files with easily customizable settings.
18 ExplorerFab alternatives
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application types
- ISO Mounting Tool
- ISO Creator
Platforms
- Windows
ExplorerFab Features
1. Ad-free
2. Virtual Disk
3. Emulation
4. CD Burner
5. DVD Burner
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Phantom Burner
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...
13 Phantom Burner alternatives
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
Discontinued
Official website/app unavailable.

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BurnCDCC
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
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
BurnCDCC Features
Portable
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ISO Toolkit
"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...
27 ISO Toolkit alternatives
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application type
- ISO Creator
Platforms
- Windows
ISO Toolkit Features
Portable
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+1
Discontinued
Official website unavailable.

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