VirtualDrive Alternatives

VirtualDrive is described as 'FarStone CD/DVD emulators are the perfect CD management solution for families with small children, gamers on the go, small businesses with disc-based programs, and schools with disc-based educational material' and is an app in the cd/dvd tools category. There are more than 25 alternatives to VirtualDrive for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac and Flathub apps. The best VirtualDrive alternative is WinCDEmu, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like VirtualDrive are DAEMON Tools, Virtual CloneDrive, UltraISO and PowerISO.

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  1. WinCDEmu icon

    WinCDEmu

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    WinCDEmu is an open-source CD/DVD/BD emulator - a tool that allows you to mount optical disc images by simply clicking on them in Windows Explorer. If you have downloaded an ISO image and want to use it without burning it to a blank disc, WinCDEmu is the easiest way to do it.

    39 WinCDEmu alternatives

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    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • WinCDEmu is the most popular Windows alternative to VirtualDrive.

    • WinCDEmu is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to VirtualDrive.

    • WinCDEmu is Free and Open SourceVirtualDrive is Paid and Proprietary
    • WinCDEmu is LightweightVirtualDrive is not according to our users
  2. DAEMON Tools icon

    DAEMON Tools

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    Comprehensive disc imaging software supporting VHDs, ZIP archives, and password protection. Offers optical media emulation, iSCSI access, encryption via TrueCrypt, and up to 32 virtual drives. Essential for creating TrueCrypt images, emulating devices, encrypting data, and integrating with Windows systems.

    45 DAEMON Tools alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • DAEMON Tools is the most popular Mac alternative to VirtualDrive.

    • DAEMON Tools is Freemium and ProprietaryVirtualDrive is Paid and Proprietary
  4. Virtual CloneDrive icon

    Virtual CloneDrive

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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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Cyberlink Power2Go

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    UltraISO

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    Directly edit and extract ISO or DVD image files, manage directories and boot info, create images from hard drive or physical media, convert between formats, optimize file structure, integrate with shell, and handle virtual drives and bootable media.

    52 UltraISO alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • UltraISO is the most popular commercial alternative to VirtualDrive.

    • UltraISO is Paid and ProprietaryVirtualDrive is also Paid and Proprietary
  7. PowerISO icon

    PowerISO

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    Powerful tool supporting a variety of disc image files, including ISO, BIN, and NRG. Enables ISO creation, editing, conversion, CD/DVD/Blu-Ray burning, and audio CD ripping. Features advanced DAA support for compression and encryption, allows bootable USB creation and ISO mounting.

    53 PowerISO alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Bundleware
    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
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    • PowerISO is the most popular Linux alternative to VirtualDrive.

    • PowerISO is Paid and ProprietaryVirtualDrive is also Paid and Proprietary
    • PowerISO is LightweightVirtualDrive is not according to our users
  8. ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver icon

    ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver

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    ImDisk is a virtual disk driver for Windows NT through Windows 10. It can create virtual hard disk, RAM Disk, floppy or CD/DVD drives using image files or system memory.

    37 ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • BSD
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  10. Alcohol icon

    Alcohol

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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
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  11. AcetoneISO icon

    AcetoneISO

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    AcetoneISO, is a feature-rich and complete software application to manage CD/DVD images. Thanks to powerful open source tools such as fuseiso, AcetoneISO will let You mount typical proprietary images formats of the Windows world such as ISO BIN NRG MDF IMG and do plenty of other...

    43 AcetoneISO alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    CDemu

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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.

    31 CDemu alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
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  13. OSFMount icon

    OSFMount

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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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Even lets you mount RAM disks, virtual disk images and many different disk images (i.e. NRG, ISO, BIN, ...) ... amazing that this is free software!

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    • OSFMount is Free and ProprietaryVirtualDrive is Paid and Proprietary
    • OSFMount is LightweightVirtualDrive is not according to our users
  14. Cyberlink Power2Go icon

    Cyberlink Power2Go

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    Power2Go is a simple all-in-one solution for all your disc burning, movie disc authoring, media conversion and backup needs. With unparalleled support for a wide-range of disc & mobile formats, you can drag-n-drop files to instantly burn data or movies.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  15. DVDFab Virtual Drive icon

    DVDFab Virtual Drive

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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

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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