Both are available at http://Slysoft.com – Virtual Clone Drive is free. Clone CD is around $60.00 and is often on sale. It’s around $52 US right now.
What are they good for:
Well, Clone CD will allow you to “rip” just about any CD or DVD. I have a DVD that I have trouble watching. It’s an instructional one, and it is just hard to watch. I just “cloned” it and saved it to my server so I can watch it anywhere in the house, as long as I have a computer.
A copy of the DVD is now on my home server and I can use Clone CD to watch it. Got it going on a corner of my other machine right now.
Virtual Clone Drive allows me to watch it. I just mount the Cloned DVD with Virtual Clone Drive and I have a new drive letter that allows me to watch that video.
It’ gets easier with regular CD’s. Say you have a CD with some software on it, and you want to install it on your Netbook. Well, I do have an external DVD/CD drive, but it’s much easier to store a copy of the CD on my server, mount it with Virtual Clone Drive and install it from the virtual drive.
Also works at school – load the ISO image on the server, and use Virtual Clone drive to mount the ISO image and run on each workstation.
Seriously good programs. They have some other stuff that might be of interest to others, but those are my two favorite programs.
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