I am looking for a utility or software that will install a virtual optical drive that can be detect by other CD burning software and write the 3rd party image to disk. Anyone know of such a thing? OS: Windows 10
If you want to create a disc image from files you will need a bit of software. This is a simple neat utility that doesn't require an install: https://www.videohelp.com/software/Folder2Iso Then for other tasks right click an ISO in Windows 10 you get "Mount" and "Burn disc image". I think that should cover you(?)
Bit more clarification. The issue is I'm using a laptop with no optical drive. I am looking to create a virtual CDRW drive that 3rd party software can see and use. The software does not support creating disk image directly it has very limited features.
I don't know of any tools that will emulate a CDRW in that way - there used to be loads of ISO mount tools, but I can't ever recall anything that mimics an actual CDRW. For the hassle involved, couldn't you just pick up a USB CD burner - they only cost about £20?
It's been a while since I did any kind of CD-related stuff on a Windows box, but last I remember Virtual CD allowed you to create a virtual burner which would write to images. Instructions are here. It's payware, but there's a 30-day trial which should sort you out.
Same not done it for a long time but think Macrium reflect might do this also on the personal free tier. I though Windows did this natively, or is that only when you have a CDRW you can build a disc before burn?
I think, but don't take it as gospel 'cos I'm not a Windows user these days, that you can build an ISO image for saving or burning from a directory of files, but you can't fool a piece of software that's looking for a physical burner into creating an ISO image without Virtual CD or similar.
Not sure if I'm misunderstanding the requirement, but would Imgburn or DaemonTools help? Both are free when I last checked some time ago. The versions I have can create iso images from folders/files without the need for a physical drive to be present..
Virtual CD would be a good shout as last I checked it could create a virtual disc drive as Mr Gareth said.
Virtual CD looks promising. Thank you DaemonTools! how could I have forgotten about DemonTools? Oh right, while free they started packing it with spamware so I stop using and and forgot about it. Not sure if that is still the case. Looks like it might also be a option but not the free version. Thank you to everyone for there replies. I have some testing to do.
Do let us know how you get on, bud - the interweb is full of unfinished threads without solutions...!
