There are many applications for which their DVD/CD needs to be available in the Drive to run the application on the system. Now a days there are many virtual DVD drives software are available, which will free your DVD drive for other purposes.
After the successful installation of the virtual drive software, an extra drive will be visible in your “My Computer”. Create the image file (any format ISO, BIN, CCD) of the physical DVD/CD by using Nero or any other same kind of software and then insert the image DVD in the virtual DVD/CD drive.
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After the installation, virtual drive clone will ask you about the number of drives you want in My Computer section.
 
Once you click on ÖK”, you can see the extra drive in your My Computer window.
Download links for the freeware Virtual Clove Drive software
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