Tag Archives: virtual drive

Hardware-Related

WinCDEmu – Easiest way to mount a disk image

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As we all know, the greatest benefits of the image file format are security, stability, and high compression. Therefore, many collectable files are made into ISO or other image file formats for preservation and distribution. Instead of burning an image file as a CD/DVD as before in order to view the files inside, you can always use a file archiver like 7-Zip to direct extract them out (which can be time-consuming), but a better way to do that is use a virtual drive.

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Safety-Related

[v5.xx] Hidden Disk – Creates a password-protected hidden disk

The biggest trouble with working or studying on a public computer is that there will always be people who will look into and even steal, delete your important documents, materials and data without permission, some of which may even involve personal privacy and trade secrets. In this case, you can use Hidden Disk to create a virtual, encrypted drive (you need a password to access it) that can be hidden at will to solve this problem perfectly.

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Hardware-Related

[v7.x] Gilisoft RAMDisk – Boost performance and speed up access to data

Because physical memory performs operations much, much faster than hard disk, RAM disk can greatly improve application performance. Given that large capacity memory is now widely available and mostly idle, so we can use software like GiliSoft RAMDisk to create free memory as virtual hard drives for use, thus increasing the running speed of software or system many times.

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Hardware-Related

ImDisk – Virtual disk driver and RAM disk creator

By modifying the environment variables of system or software to save a variety of commonly used temporary folders (Temp, IE Cache, Download folder, for example) to the virtual hard disk (RAM drive), we can effectively improve the file reading/writing speed and software running speed. And in fact, it can also reduce the reading/writing times of physical disk so as to prolong its service life to some extent.

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Upload & Download

[v2.6.16] NetDrive – Network drives/cloud storage services mapping tool

For common computer users, we have been used to taking advantage of so many free or commercial network drives to store or transfer various files. To this end, we have to access them through a web browser or their corresponding clients. For independent bloggers or webmasters who mostly use a virtual hosting, FTP client is their must-have file manager. But the truth is, using any specialized clients to manage the files on remote or online drives is still not as convenient as in our local drives.

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File & Manage

WinMount – Mount archive files into virtual drives seamlessly

WinMount is a powerful archive manager utility, in addition to common functions of compressing, decompressing, browsing, etc, it also allows to mount CD/DVD, virtual machine image file or other highly compressed archive file as virtual drive for any common use, easy and fast.

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