There are a couple programs that can do this. Alcohol 120% and Daemon Tools both include a disc emulator, so you can use an ISO image instead of a physical disc drive. A good free program that does this,but with fewer features, is Virtual CloneDrive.
A CD is neither hardware, nor software. A CD is media. A CD-ROM Drive is hardware.
The main benefit of using MagicISO software is the ability to access software that is normally only accessible by using a CD or DVD in a CD or DVD drive. The software replicates the exact contents of the CD/DVD on your hard drive whilst making the operating system think its actually a virtual CD/DVD drive.
The ePSXe is a computer program witch emulates a Playstation one console. You can play most PSX game discs in your CD-rom drive.
That is not possible.
A small rig moves a laser along the CD, the laser reads binary data from the grooves in the CD and the drive's software interprets the results.
It runs CDs. Ya know it reads the CD. So, you can use the software or files on it.
If by "''work''" a CD-ROM you mean '''read''' it, You need: * a CD-ROM drive, either an internal drive (IDE or EIDE, goes inside the computer), or USB drive (external, goes outside the computer). * driver software, which either your computer will automatically install, or will be provided with the CD-ROM drive that you purchase. If by "''work''" a CD-ROM you mean '''write''' it, You need: * a CD-R or CD-RW drive (which is capable or writing or ''burning'' CD-R disks or CD-RW disks) * driver software (see above) * blank media (a stack of blank CD-R or CD-RW disks) * CD-writer software, like Nero (http://ww2.nero.com/us/index.html) or something else--often, this software comes with your CD-writer.
A program which emulates a drive, or in other words a program which fools the computer into thinking that a folder or a file is a harddisk/cd/dvd/bluray/whatever. Examples: Alcohol 52% DAEMON Tools Lite WinCDEmu
There really isn't such a thing. The speed at which data can be written ("burned") to a CD is limited by the CD drive itself.
A live CD carries software that will run off of the CD without needing to access the hard drive of the computer it is run from.
A live CD carries software that will run off of the CD without needing to access the hard drive of the computer it is run from.
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