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.
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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 |
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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 |
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Sanjay Majumder