Types of Drive

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Having explained in the previous sections how to insert and eject virtual CDs, we shall now take a closer look at virtual drives. Virtual CD lets you insert virtual CDs in the following types of drive:

Physical drives: Of course you can insert your physical CDs in a physical drive (or burner), but now Virtual CD lets you use this drive for virtual CDs as well. This "overwrites" any physical CD in the drive. In other words, when you insert a virtual CD in a physical drive, your operating system recognizes only the virtual CD "in" the drive, not the physical CD.
Virtual CD drives: You can use these for everyday use (i.e., access to data stored on CD media) of your virtual CDs. You can set up as many virtual drives as you have drive letters available for them.
Virtual burners: This is a special type of virtual drive. You can use it like any other virtual drive, and you also have the option of using it as a virtual burner; for example, to write data from other programs on a virtual blank CD.

 

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All CD drives that were not installed by Virtual CD are seen as physical CD drives.

 

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You can create virtual burners rather than virtual drives when configuring your Virtual CD program. Please keep in mind, however, that some programs cannot function properly on a computer that has a large number of burners. For the best possible compatibility with other programs, create only as many virtual burners as you need. For example, 2 virtual burners and 3 virtual drives are sufficient in many cases.

 

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With the default settings, Virtual CD sets up one virtual burner and one virtual CD drive. You can add drives at any time, on the Virtual drives page of the Virtual CD Settings.