It is well known that many legitimate games in the past needed to insert a CD for playing, or we sometimes need to quickly browse large programs or files packaged in the ISO format. In cases like these, software applications such as virtual optical drive came out. If you want a small, free virtual drive program rather than some large commercial software such as Daemon Tools, then you might as well give VirtualDVD a try.

As we all know, the greatest benefits of the image file format are security, stability, and high compression. Therefore, many collectable files are made into ISO or other image file formats for preservation and distribution. Instead of burning an image file as a CD/DVD as before in order to view the files inside, you can always use a file archiver like 7-Zip to direct extract them out (which can be time-consuming), but a better way to do that is use a virtual drive.

Ghost (short for General Hardware-Oriented System Transfer) is an excellent backup & restore tool (commonly known as cloning software) for system, data on hard disk/partition developed by the famous Symantec company from America. For the vast majority of advanced users like system administrator/network manager, it is used to backup the system partition (so as to minimize the time and labor spent on each reinstallation of OS furthest) or data on a disk.

If Acronis True Image is used by individual, family or small companies, then Acronis Backup Advanced is specially designed for large enterprises with complex environment, provides world-class data protection and swift and flexible disaster recovery for all systems.

AnyToISO is a lightweight, easy-to-use (almost one-click) and universal image file creating, converting and extracting tool.