Virtual drive
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A virtual drive is a term used with respect to computers when a drive is emulated in some fashion. The drive being emulated could be a hard drive, floppy drive, CD/DVD or a network share among others.
A virtual hard drive can be created from RAM for fast read/write access. See: RAM disk. As well, there is software that makes one's Gmail account act as a virtual external drive.
Virtual DVD or CD drives are often mounted disk images via disk image emulator software. This allows one to read a CD or DVD from the disk image that is usually located on the hard drive, rather than from the disc drive. This allows users to run software requiring the CD or DVD without having to swap discs, or even possess it.
[edit] Virtual burners
Virtual CD by H+H Software GmbH, as of version 8.0, is the first known application to provide true CD and DVD burner emulation. Virtual CD's virtual burners look like real CD and DVD recordable/rewriteable drives to Microsoft Windows and all authoring and burning programs. This is a very useful tool for DVD and CD premastering and testing (and avoiding disc "coasters"). Other vitual drive programs have claimed burner emulation, but those virtual burners can only be accessed internally and not via any external programs.
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- CD Emulator - free virtual CD-ROM program for Windows® XP (and unofficially Windows® 2000) from Microsoft.
- MagicDISC - free virtual drive manager & disk image emulator with sophisticated compression capabilities.
- OnlineDrive - file management, viewer and sharing application with data center levels of file protection.
- RoamDrive - free Windows® application to use a web-based e-mail services to store files.
- SFTP Drive - map your remote Linux server as a Windows® network drive over SFTP.
- Virtual CD - H+H Software GmbH website
- WebDrive - virtual drive connection to SFTP, FTP, and WebDAV servers.
