Virtual Disk

among today's youth, especially that part of it which is the avid gamers, it is difficult to find a single person who would not know what a virtual disk.But those of PC users who never in his life did not play in the game, too, sometimes have to use this useful technology.Here for such "dummies" who did not know until now that is a virtual disk, but for some reason decided to find her, and wrote this story.

Before we proceed directly to the description of the topic, should clarify the question.Roughly speaking, the phrase "virtual disk" can have two meanings.In one case, it really is a drive that looks like a real system, but is actually a software implementation based on existing "real drive, and the other - may mean a virtual device for disk images.

First, I draw your attention to the programs that allow you to create a virtual drive, and talk about what they need and how to work with them.Modern games are increasingly distributed via the Internet in the form of disk images recorded in the format .iso, is particularly fond of this format to pirates, who almost single release promising not miss and crack immediately in the first day of sales.

Download game, you just get on a computer file, which understood the matter, it is necessary to install, but how to do it?To take advantage of the resulting image, you will need to first put on a PC program that will work correctly with the images.The most popular products with the most advanced features of simulation called Daemon Tools.The main advantages of this product, of course - it's free, the ability to load and use a virtual disk, whose image was shot with a protected product Laserlock, BACKUPcopies Securom or discs.In a word - it is unequivocal, as the English say, "Mast keV" that is mandatory to download the program.

If for some reason you do not like Daemon Tools, alternatively, you can use Alcohol 120%.This surcharge equivalent, with the trial system for review.After 30 days, you will have to pay for any further use, or give it up.The only significant difference between the two products is that in the presence of the first, you can not carry out, if necessary, to create a virtual disk (or image) of the game, but the second you have the opportunity to.And yet these two competing products with different systems of protection against third party that can be expressed in the reluctance of some images of the programs work with one or the other system emulation.That is why the creators of the torrents, in which content is distributed under the virtual drives, usually point to a specific image emulator created for Demon Tools or Alkogolya120%.

Well, now it's time to move from the virtual drives to the virtual disk.What is it and how can it be good for us?Typically, the virtual disk is used by those who need to be installed on the computer system of another method, called mode "virtual machine."In this mode, after loading a OSes, you will be able to download it directly to other operating systems, such as under Vindous 7 download Vindous XP.However, the use of such "tricks" will not work without special programs, such as the well-known Oracle VM VirtualBox.

But on this program, we'll talk some other time, too complicated and extensive is the theme to fit in such a small article.Although, of course, no one forbids you to turn to search engines.Information on this topic in the network - a huge amount.