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Virtual CD/DVD Tower

How it works
A Virtual CD (or DVD) Tower emulates a physical CD Tower (an array of CD-ROM drives) through a combination of hardware and software. The Virtual DVD Tower has the added capability of imaging DVDs to hard disk or using them in the DVD drive itself.

The hardware components is the physical unit of the Virtual CD/DVD Tower. This device is comprised of a CD or DVD-ROM drive bay and a Hard Disk Drive(s). Data from physical CDs is loaded onto the hard disk(s) and stored as "Virtual CD-ROM discs".

The software component is the Virtual CD-ROM program. This utility will create a user friendly interface that allows for the creation of Virtual CD Drive Bays. These drives appear in the Windows95 desktop just as a physical CD drive, but are actually intangible. In other words, these are fabrications of the program that Windows will treat as actual, physical devices. The rules of Windows 95 apply to both. You can have as many Virtual CD Drive Bays as you have available drive letters. Virtual CD Discs will be "inserted" in these bays using the software.

Install the software

The program will auto-install from a CD. Insert the program disc into a CD drive bay and follow the on screen instructions to install the program. If the auto-run feature does not begin, click on Start, select Run and type D:\setup<enter> (where D: is the letter of your CD-ROM drive).

After the program has been installed and the computer has rebooted open the Virtual CD-ROM program by selecting Start, then Programs, then the Virtual CD-ROM subdirectory, then the Virtual CD ROM 1.0 program.

The program window will open to a split screen. The left side lists an Virtual CD Drive Bays (original default is just 1), The right side lists the Virtual CD Discs. To increase the number of Bays, click on Edit. Select Number of Drives. Enter the total number of desired drive bays. Remember--- the rules of Windows 95 apply. There are only 26 letter in the English alphabet. Add up the number of physical drives, and take that into account when deciding the number of Virtual CD Drive Bays.

Click here for help with creating and deleting Virtual CD-ROMs.