How to create a virtual drive on the computer

For many, computer games or some programs a mandatory condition is the availability of disk with the game in the drive. This leads to a wear device, unnecessary noise from the computer and, in General, is not very convenient. The problem is solved by creating a virtual disk in the system. For the same games downloaded from the Internet, the only way to install often - mounting disk image. We will see how to create such a drive.

You will need

Program to work with disk images.

Instruction

Download software for working with disk images. This can be a paid or free tool. Among the free recognized leader Daemon Tools Lite. Of the paid counterparts you can recommend Alcohol 120%, in addition to reading the disk image, it can create them and record to disk. For download use checked sources, or the official website of the developer.

Start by double-clicking the setup file, answer the questions in the setup wizard by pressing "Next" and "finish". During the installation process you will need to reboot, so save and close any important data and documents. Open the main module the downloaded program to do this, start by double-clicking the icon on your desktop. Or you can press the button "start" - > All programs -> Daemon Tools. The result is the same.

A window will appear with the title Mount''n Drive Manager. In its lower part, press the right mouse button on free space and select "Add SCSI virtual drive". Another way is to click the right mouse button on the program icon in the system tray near the clock. Steps are the same, just pick a line written above the team.

A message will appear about creating a virtual drive. Wait until it disappears.
Open "My computer" and check the list of drives. You should see a new item in this list. For example, if you used to have the letters "C:, D:, E:", then after it should be, for example, C:, D:, E:, F:".

Now you have in the computer has a virtual drive. It works with almost all types of disk images, and is integrated into the operating system. You only have to double click on the file to automatically download and mount. In some cases, can be useful for two or more virtual drive at the same time. If your case is this — repeat the steps from step 3. You can create about 20 drives with this program.

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