Daemon Tools is a multifunctional utility for emulating CDs and DVDs. The principle of the program is based on the installation of virtual disks that do not differ functionally from physical devices. To work with it, you must have either a ready-made disk image or files suitable for its creation. It is especially important to use the emulator on netbooks, where the usual floppy drive is absent at all. Among the most noteworthy are the packages and, perhaps, the utility.
Our review will affect the version. Its functionality differs from the series in the following positions:
- The ability to self-create images and convert existing ones;
- Hot keys support;
- Support for Blu-ray and HD discs;
- The maximum number of virtual media is 32, versus 4 for the Lite version.
How to create a disk image in Daemon Tools
Using images solves several problems at once. Firstly, there is no need for storage and care of disks. Secondly, the wear of the drive and its individual parts is reduced. Thirdly, the financial costs for purchasing disks are reduced (a license purchased via the Internet is much cheaper).
To independently in Daemon Tools, you must click the "Create disk image" button. In the window that appears, select the active drive from where the recording will be carried out; assign a suitable name for the image file, destination folder, and destination file format.
Most often used MDS / MDF, others in special cases. Depending on the speed, the creation time does not exceed 10 minutes. If you create an image of a game, you can safely choose the highest speed, if you need an image of the boot disk - as a rule, choose the lowest speed to avoid reading errors.
When creating an image from a protected source, Daemon Tools should also have no particular problems. It confidently bypasses the protection systems SafeDisk, SecureROM, StarForce, etc. There are, of course, more advanced "locks" for disks, but they are usually handled by professionals, most media do not have this level of protection.
Daemon Tools and the process of mounting images
Daemon Tools supports all known formats, including mdf / mds, iso, flac, ape, nrg, cue / bin, etc.
When the finished image is on hand, you need it on a virtual media, which should be created before that. To do this, select the tab "Actions" -\u003e "Add virtual DT drive" (IDE or SCSI if necessary). Next, the program will automatically create a virtual disk and assign a name to it. Attention, you may need to restart your computer.
To set the number of drives and their settings, use the "Virtual drives control" icon.
The next step is to mount the image directly to the virtual disk. Activate the button "Add images", select the required image file (file type: all image files (* mds, * mdf, ...). The image should appear in the right column of the program. Right-click on it, select "Mount Image"... We are waiting for 30 seconds. Done, you can use the virtual disk as well as the usual drive.
Removing the image is done with the right mouse button -\u003e remove.
Disc burning
Writing an image to disk is a great way to protect your data in the event of a system crash. This function, for example, is most often used when creating bootable discs.
Fortunately for us, DT Soft has equipped its products with this feature. Many people remember that in the fourth generation of Daemon Tools this function was absent, so most of the users preferred to use other programs. Unlike many competitors, DT's functionality lies on the surface, and therefore, difficulties should arise extremely rarely. Prepare a disc of suitable capacity before starting recording. Then in the program window select "Burn Image" - a window with recording settings will appear. Set the desired speed and specify the path to the image file. The process will start after pressing the "Start" button.
What's the bottom line?
In general, the latest version of DT Pro Advanced leaves a pleasant impression. The program, despite its small size, works stably, without crashes. However, some operations seemed to take a significant amount of time. I am pleased with the opportunity to "reach" any function directly from the main utility window, split the image into several convenient parts and put a password on it, integrate into Windows, and search for images on local disks of the computer. Using a proprietary editor, you can change the original image format to one of the three available: ISO, MDS and MDX. In addition, an information window about the news of the gaming industry, the rating of games and the images used is integrated into the interface. Among the supported systems are not only the 64bit used in the review, but also the 32-bit brother, XP, Vista and the latest G8.
Hello dear readers! Nowadays, the creation of a virtual drive in the operating system is gaining in importance. For example, you bought yourself a toy on a DVD, and it, in turn, starts only if there is a CD in the drive.
This kind of protection applies to many discs, preventing them from being copied in bulk. And in general, as you know, launching games from a physical disk is much inferior to a virtual drive in speed. For this reason, many gamers use a virtual drive to run games.
Another example, let's say you constantly accumulate optical DVD-discs on which useful tutorials are recorded, important data for you, and the number of these discs is constantly growing. It should be noted that the likelihood of such a situation is high, when all the information on optical disks may one day be unavailable. The reasons can be as an error when reading the discs themselves, due to scratches on their surface, and sometimes even optical discs are simply lost.
In order not to waste your precious time searching for your data recorded on the disk, and to try to ensure the safety of information that is important to you, as well as to increase the speed of reading the information recorded on the disk, I recommend that you create images of these disks. In the last article, I already touched on the topic of the image. If you do not know what an image is, why it is created, then I recommend that you read my article on the blog:
The created image will be an exact copy of the program, any data that was originally written to the optical disc.
Thus, thanks to the created image, you will increase the reliability of the safety of your information. Such an image will already be located on the hard disk, and you can easily launch it from a virtual drive. And this, in turn, will speed up the work of accessing the recorded information in comparison with a physical drive.
In this article, we will look at how to create an image from an optical disc. In order to create a copy of an optical disc in the form of a single file, both paid and free programs are used. I already spoke about one of these programs in the article:
There is also another program, in my opinion, it is quite simple. With this program, you can create an exact copy of the optical media. The program is called Daemon Tools. In this article we will find out how to useDaemon Tools, and also consider visually, how to install viadaemontools the game.
Where to download and how to install Daemon Tools
So, go to the official site http://www.disc-soft.com/rus/home and download Daemon Tools Lite to your computer.
I'll tell you right away that the installation is very simple. So let's get started ...
We download this program for free, so we click “Download”.
The download speed of the program largely depends on the speed of your Internet connection. In my case, downloading the program took only a few minutes.
After the download is complete, it's time to start installing it to consider how to useDaemon Tools.
Installation of the program will not take you much time, it will be enough to agree with the program license agreement.
Then choose "Free License".
In the next window, check the box to install the corresponding program driver.
After that, you can check the box "Do not allow the use of my statistics."
Then you will need to specify the path to save the program. I leave everything as default and click Next.
It will take some time to complete the installation of the program itself.
At the end of the installation, you will be prompted to install a special gadget of the program. Which will be located on the computer desktop. I did not install this gadget and clicked "Do not install".
Now we just need to restart the computer to complete the program.
After the computer boots up, a window will appear that will check the program for the presence of the appropriate license and version.
After checking and updating, the main window of the program itself will start.
So, we have installed the program for creating a single file from optical media and now it's time to figure it out and understand how to use Daemon Tools. For the best understanding and consolidation of skills in working with Daemon Tools, consider how to install viadaemon tools game. Let's say we have a game CD that only starts when the disc itself is in the drive. Our task is to launch the game in the absence of a disc in the drive, or rather, from a virtual drive.
Let's take a closer look at where to start:
If you check the boxes for "Autostart" and "Automatic mounting", then the CD will be mounted when you turn on the computer.
1. Open the program by clicking on the Daemon Tools shortcut on your desktop.
2. Click on "Create Disk Image".
3. Then, in the window that opens, check the drive to be specified, and also specify the path for saving the image.
4. After that the program will start creating an image from the disk. Depending on the size of the game, it will take some time to create the image.
5. As soon as the program finishes creating the image, you will need to close the window by clicking on the "Close" button.
6. As a result, as you can see, the created image is displayed in the main program window in the Image Catalog window. Now we need to click on the Mount button on the toolbar, or you can use the right mouse button.
Today, such storage media as CDs and DVDs have gradually lost some of their popularity to methods of electronic data transmission. Many users download movies, books and music on the Internet and view them all on their computer without any problems. However, things are a little different with computer games: since their developers make their profit from the sale of discs, they try to protect their product from distribution as much as possible. The Safedisc and Securom protection systems, known to every avid gamer, have appeared, which require the original CD in the drive. It was in order to deceive the security system that special emulator programs were invented. They are able to read disk image files (in which games are usually distributed on the Internet) and put them in a so-called virtual drive, which allows you to bypass the security system and enjoy the game without the original CD.
Daemon tools is one of the most common such programs. The reason for the high popularity of this application is its free and easy to use. However, for many users who have not previously encountered emulators, some aspects and functions of Daemon Tools are often incomprehensible. We will tell you how to learn how to fully work with this emulator in this article.
(namely the Lite version) can be absolutely free from the website of its developers. The Pro version is paid, but we will not consider it, since in the overwhelming majority of cases the capabilities of the free version are sufficient. The program is installed in a completely standard way, after which the Daemon icon will appear in the lower right corner of the display on the taskbar.
The application is ready to use. The first step is to create a virtual drive, for this you need to right-click on the icon and select "Virtual drives" and then "Add". The free version allows you to create up to four virtual drives, each of which can contain an image. For a start, one will be enough for us. After creating a virtual drive, the system will think that a real drive is connected to it and assign it a free letter. You can check this by going to "My Computer": you will see a virtual item created a minute ago, along with a real drive and a hard disk.
Next, we need to insert the virtual disk image into the virtual drive. To do this, click again on the program icon in the lower right corner and select the "Virtual drives" item again. Now we see that the drive we created has appeared there, next to which it says "No data". Hover the cursor over it and select the "Mount image" item. In the window that appears, the program prompts us to choose which file to mount. You must select a previously downloaded image file (for example, .iso, .mds, .nrg). Having found the desired image, click on the "Open" button. Mounting the image usually takes 5-10 seconds, after which the computer will begin to assume that there is a real disk in the drive. Now you can easily install and run the downloaded game or program, as if you were installing it from a regular disk.
Thus, working with Daemon Tools is very easy and pleasant and not difficult at all. This program is installed in almost all home computers, as its convenience and functionality is necessary for every modern user.
In this article, we will understand in detail, in pictures, step by step how to use ... We will learn how to mount an image we already have, we will be able to create and write images to disk. All this can be done just by downloading an excellent program for free - an emulator. We will not delay for a long time, but consider the most important points. The first is to install the emulator.
To install Russian for Daemon Tools Lite, select, at the very beginning of the installation, "Russian (Russian)". 
After agreeing to the terms of use, you will be asked to choose the type of license: paid or free. Since we are considering the process of the free version, we will install it. It is just right for personal, non-commercial use. Therefore, select "Free license" and click "Next". 
After that, a window will appear in which you will be asked to set the file association, to show or not shortcuts on the desktop and in the program menu. You can safely leave everything by default, especially if you do not have another disk emulator installed. Click "Next" again. 
In the next window you will be asked to send your mount statistics and will be assured that everything will happen anonymously. Information will be sent about all images that you mount in the Daemon Tools Lite program. You can send it or not, it's up to you. In this example, we will disable the use of our statistics by clicking on “Do not allow Mount Space to use my statistics”. 
Select the location where you want to install. 
During the installation process, you will be prompted to install Yandex.Bar. You can agree, or uncheck all the boxes and click "Next", as shown in the picture. 
After installation, you should return to the main question - how to use Daemon Tools Lite? Even easier than installing!
So, to create an image in Daemon Tools Lite, you need to click on "Create disk image". 
After that, you should select the location where the disk image will be saved and the drive from which the recording will be made. 
Writing a disc to a computer is fast enough, especially if you left the read speed at maximum. 
Your image is in the folder that you specified before creating the disk image. But for sure you do not have any virtual drives, and to run a disk on a computer, we need to create at least one such. To do this, click on "Add virtual SCSI drive". 
Literally a moment, and at the bottom of the program an icon of a virtual drive will appear, on which we will mount our virtual images. It is possible to create and emulate several disks at the same time, but for now one is enough for us.
Now let's look at how to mount an image in Daemon Tools Lite and simply add it to the list. To add an image to the list, simply drag it into the main window, or use the "Add Image" button for this, and specify the path to it. 
Following 
To mount the Daemon Tools Lite image on a virtual drive, select the newly added image and click on "Mount". Also, you can right-click on any image and click "Mount". 
Following 
As you can see in the picture above, our image has been successfully mounted. Your disk should automatically start, as in autorun. Also, at any time you can access the disk by going to "My Computer".
If you want to unmount the disk, that is, remove it temporarily or permanently, then call the context menu (right mouse button) on your virtual disk and select “Unmount”. 
Thanks to Daemon Tools Lite, you can not only mount, but also burn discs. Rather, the Astroburn program, which is built into the Daemon Tools menu, is responsible for burning the image to a DVD or CD. 
After a short installation, you can absolutely, and not only images, but also regular files and folders. It is very simple to use it, you just need to select the path to the image or drop files and folders for recording into the main window, and then click on "Start recording". 
As you can see, the sequence of actions is not complicated, and after several uses you will be "automatically" performing these simple actions.
Daemon Tools Lite is one of the most popular optical disc emulation software. In this article we will tell you how to use Daemon Tools Lite.
Daemon Tools Lite interface is very simple. All actions are performed from one menu, which can be called using the icon in the notification area (on the panel next to the clock).
The first menu item is DAEMON Tools Lite. This menu item calls the main program window. Here the user can view the list of disk images that he has mounted recently. Also, using this window, you can perform all the functions of the main menu of the program.
At the top of this window is the "Image Catalog" and "Recent Images". With their help, you can mount disks with a regular double click.
Mounted drives are displayed at the bottom of the screen. They can be controlled using the context menu.
All actions that can be performed using the DAEMON Tools Lite window are also duplicated in the program menu.
Let's consider in order all other elements of the main menu of DAEMON Tools Lite
The second item on the menu is "Create disk image"... When this menu item is selected, the utility for creating disk images is launched.
Here the user is asked to select the drive where the disk is installed and specify the location where the created disk image will be saved.
The main menu item is "Virtual Drives"... It can be used to add or remove drives and.
In order to mount a disk image using the Daemon Tools Lite program, you need to open the Virtual drives menu - select one of the installed drives - select the Mount drive item. Then a window will open in which you need to select a disk image file on your hard disk.
After the image is selected, the disk will be mounted and appear in the system. Then it will be possible to work with it as with a regular disk installed in an optical drive.
Once the disk is mounted it can be unmounted using the same menu.
The "Settings" menu item launches a window with program settings.
Here you can configure hotkeys and other options for integration with the system.
The next menu items are "Catalog of images" and "Latest images" with their help, you will be able to mount recently used disk images in one click.
The last menu items are: Buy Online, Help and Sign Out... Their purpose is clear from their name and needs no explanation.
