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PostPosted: March 21st, 2005, 3:02 pm 
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There are numerous possibilities to create 'virtual' hardware on your computer, I'll name a couple of programs here that might be interesting to take a look at:

:!: Ram

You can use RAM as a (temporary) storage by mounting it as virtual disk/drive.

For 9x/ME systems:
- RAM drive (direct download)

For NT-based systems:
- RAMDisk by QSoft, free version limited to 64 MB
- AR Soft RAM Disk (no longer downloadeable from the homepage, link leads to MajorGeeks)

:idea: Be careful with the size of your RAM disk, experiment a bit before you make it 'very' big, because that could hang your system...


:!: Floppy

If you don't have a floppydrive, you can emulate one.

For NT-based systems:
- Virtual Floppy Driver


:!: Disk

If you don't have a disk :P , you can emulate one.

For NT-based systems:
- Virtual Disk Driver

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PostPosted: March 21st, 2005, 10:39 pm 
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And here some more, similar programs:

Cryptainer LE

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Cryptainer LE is software that can create multiple encrypted containers. It functions like any other drive on your computer. Just drag and drop any file into the Cryptainer. It is automatically encrypted. It's that simple! Cryptainer files can only be viewed, accessed, browsed or modified by the user who has the key to open it. At other times it remains invisible.


vSubst

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Creates drive-letters for any folders on your harddisk. Useful to create virtual drives e.g. on laptops. Allows easy removal of all virtual folders (= Visual 32-Bit-SUBST-Command)

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PostPosted: March 21st, 2005, 11:12 pm 
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And now I almost forgot the Daemon Tools, a virtual CD/DVD-ROM driver... 8)

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DAEMON Tools is an advanced application for multiprotection emulation. It is further development of Generic Safedisc emulator and incorporates all its features. This program allows running Backup Copies of SafeDisc (C-Dilla), Securom, Laserlock, CDCOPS, StarForce and Protect CD (and many others) protected games. Also included is a Virtual DVDROM drive (Generic DVD-ROM) enabling you to use your CD images as if they were already burned to CD! DAEMON Tools works under Windows9x/ME/NT/2000/XP with all types of CD/DVDROM drives (IDE/SCSI) and supports nearly any CD protection.


And the products based on it (if you are on a network) Starport & Starwind.

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StarPort is a complete iSCSI initiator, RAM disk and virtual DVD emulator implementation for Windows. ... StarPort enhances Windows sharing of storage subsystem over an existing IP network dealing as client software pairing iSCSI targets. ... This software package combined with StarWind working as server allows you to:

- share CD/DVD burners over the network and use your favorite CD/DVD burning application ... to burn CD/DVD remotely
- share tape drives over the network and use your favorite tape backup application ... to backup to tape drive remotely
- share hard disk drives over the network for fast storing large amounts of data (replication) at block-level rather then doing this at file-level
- backup whole server storage subsystem over the network w/o putting machine down
- work with the virtual volumes, dynamic volume snapshots, incremental backups
- create extremely fast RAM disk drives for temporary data storing
- mount standard ISO and MDS images into created Virtual DVD drives

Key features:

- All SCSI devices (actually any devices with SCSI-like drivers: Serial and Parallel ATA and SCSI, Fibre Channel, USB and FireWire) are supported for sharing (hard disk, CD/DVD, tape, processor etc)
- iSCSI draft 20 used to talk to remote machine (interoperability allows to mix different operating systems at both sides)
- Extremely high speed, nearly no difference between local and remote SCSI device (if supported by network hardware, GbE is strongly recommended however 100 megabits networks work fine most of tasks)
- Local RAM disks have very powerful backup capabilities
- Fast DVD drives mapped to ISO or MDS image files

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PostPosted: May 23rd, 2005, 8:07 am 
I used to use a virtual cd drive program for one of the games I play and it created a drive F and would load the cd image into that. Don't remember what program it was, but I ended up reformating my drive without uninstalling it and when I reinstalled windows and all that, I looked in My Computer and the extra drive it made was still there, just 0 bytes. Anyone know how I can get rid of it? It's a bit annoying having it there. Thanks


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PostPosted: August 9th, 2005, 6:40 am 
The www.truecrypt.org page wrote:
T r u e C r y p t
Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows XP/2000/2003
Main Features:

* It can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mount it as a real disk.

* It can encrypt an entire hard disk partition or a device, such as USB memory stick, floppy disk, etc.

* Provides two levels of plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password:

1) Hidden volume (more information may be found here).

2) No TrueCrypt volume can be identified (TrueCrypt volumes cannot be distinguished from random data).

* Encryption algorithms: AES-256, Blowfish (448-bit key), CAST5, Serpent (256-bit key), Triple DES, and Twofish (256-bit key). Supports cascading (e.g., AES-Twofish-Serpent).

* Based on Encryption for the Masses (E4M) 2.02a, which was conceived in 1997.


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PostPosted: August 25th, 2005, 2:02 pm 
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tradedaemon wrote:
I used to use a virtual cd drive program for one of the games I play and it created a drive F and would load the cd image into that. Don't remember what program it was, but I ended up reformating my drive without uninstalling it and when I reinstalled windows and all that, I looked in My Computer and the extra drive it made was still there, just 0 bytes. Anyone know how I can get rid of it? It's a bit annoying having it there. Thanks


Try uninstalling it in device manager or installing alcohol 120% or daemon tools and uninstalling it from there.

Speaking of virtual cd/dvd-roms..Alcohol 120% is pretty good with making images and helping you mount them if you don't know how.

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PostPosted: August 25th, 2005, 7:37 pm 
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If you look on the daemon tools site there's a little guide for getting rid of drives like that, I got one of those as well. It involves deleting driver files and stuff. Still, it seems impossible that it's still around if you reformated the drive.

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