http://live.pirillo.com/ – Richard in the chat room wants to know he can create a virtual drive, so he doesn’t have to burn an IRO file to physical media.

Virtual drives are drives that don’t physically exist – like a DVD-ROM drive – but they exist in software. It’s almost like a virtual machine, except a virtual drive program only emulates a drive. This allows you to mount ISO files in Windows so you don’t need to burn the file to physical media to access the data.

Chris recommends MagicISO:

MagicISO is a powerful CD/DVD image file creating/editing/extracting tool. It can open / create / edit /extract CD/DVD image files, and it can convert bin to iso and back. as well as make ISO file from DVD/CD-ROM or hard disk, and handle bootable information at meanwhile.

There are a lot of software titles out there, which one do you use and why do you use it?

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