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.
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.
It runs CDs. Ya know it reads the CD. So, you can use the software or files on it.
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.
To record information on a CD-R disc, you need a CD-R drive and the disk to record it on.