Daemon Tools

Deamon Tools is a software that emulate CD-Drive or DVD-Drive in your computer. However, there is no real place to put the CD or DVD in that emulated drive. So what good will that do you ask?

Daemon Tools can emulate up to 4 drives at one times, each drive can mount an image file of CD or DVD. The most popular format of image files are ISO and BIN. When mounted on Daemon Tools' drive, the computer will process the image file and the drive just like when you put CD or DVD into the real drive on your computer.

With current trend of broadband connection and BitTorrent, it became quite easy to *acquired* such files from internet. Once you have the image file, it was not necessary to burn them into CD or DVD before installing them. Since the files can be mount with Deamon Tools and then install right away.

This technique can be quite useful when you have old games on CD that has many scratches. You can make image file from the CD and play the game using Deamon Tools to mount that image file instead of using the real CD.