Clerks BLAH!

MagicISO Virtual CD/DVD-Rom is an amazing little program that runs in your system tray, uses very little resources, and allows you to take a disk image and turn it into a virtual CD or DVD drive.

This is great because most netbooks don’t have a CD or DVD drive.  This would allow you to creat or download a disk image of an application CD or DVD, and use it like it was a physical disk inserted into the computer. When you mount an image through the tray icon (pictured) it becomes a drive listed in your “My Computer” icon, just like any other drive.  It loads, and works just like a CD would.

There are various free programs available that will allow you to create a disk image out of any CD or DVD.  A great one, that I recommend is called ISO Recorder (http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm).  You simply tell it what CD or DVD you want to turn into an .iso file and it does the work for you.  Therefore you could take the newest game you bought, and create an .iso file out of it;s install disk, copy it to a memory card or flash drive, mount it on your netbook and run it just like you had a drive installed onthe machine.

It is compatible with a LARGE number if disk images:

• BIN              (CDRWin)
• IMA/IMG          (Generic disk images)
• CIF              (Easy CD Creator)
• NRG              (Nero – Burning ROM)
• IMG/CCD          (CloneCD)
• MDF/MDS          (Fantom CD)
• VCD              (Farstone Virtual Drive)
• VaporCD          (Noum Vapor CDROM)
• P01/MD1/XA       (Gear)
• VC4/000          (Virtual CD)
• VDI              (Virtuo CD Manager)
• C2D              (WinOnCD)
• BWI/BWT          (BlinkWrite)
• CDI              (DiscJuggler)
• TAO/DAO          (Duplicator)
• PDI              (Instant Copy)

Enjoy this free program!