Increase Life of your CDs/DVDs

How-Tos

by PCQ Bureau April 12, 2005 0 comments

Frequent access of data on DVDs/CDs reduces their life.You can increase their life by using available soft-drives that take an ISO image of a CD/DVD and emulate it as a virtual drive. Here, we’ll do this by using Softdisk 2.5, a shareware. Once you have installed Softdisk, you will need an ISO image of your
DVD.

For this you will need a CD/DVD burning software like Nero to create ISO images of all CDs/DVDs you access frequently.

Direct Hit!

Applies to: Frequently accessed
CDs/DVDs

USP: Using virtual
CD/DVD drive in place of physical CD/DVD drive

Links:
http://tucows.alaska.net/files3/scd2_en.exe


After installation, you’ll get soft-disk icon in your task panel. On double clicking the icon, you’ll get the interface shown in the screen shot	From the File menu, select Option>Configuration. You’ll get a Config window. Here, in ‘Number of Device’ select ‘1 drive’ and click on OK

Once, you’ve configured the virtual drive, you’ll see it with a mapped drive letter in the virtual drive window. Activate this virtual CD/DVD drive by mounting an ISO image	Right click on the virtual device and from the context menu, select ‘Mount image file’ add give path to your ISO image files