Daemon Tools. What is Daemon Tools?Overview Today DAEMON Tools is one of the leading system programs for creating and emulating disk images. Saving your time and efforts the software creates any CD/DVD disk image on your PC. Why do you need DAEMON Tools?
As an example, let's take a situation that happens almost every day in our life.
Your child borrowed the latest computer game from his friend. Being delighted with this game your kid asks you to buy him the same game. So, now the situation has several solutions:
However, now the DAEMON Tools software will offer you another way out. The key feature of DAEMON Tools is the fact that you don't need to use the original disk. You should only once emulate the disk image you need and install it on your PC. After that the PC will show the physical disk as if it were located in your CD/DVD drive even if it is not there. Let's sum up:
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The History of Daemon ToolsToday DAEMON Tools products created by DAEMON Tools Soft Ltd are widely known in the whole world. However DAEMON Tools have been gaining its world's recognition for years. Several years ago only few users knew about this product and used it with the majority of them preferring more popular and trusted programs like Alcohol 120% or VirtualCD. The first product being a free utility with a contextual menu could mount completed images to a disk drive and could evade the most common anti-copying systems of that time. DAEMON Tools could have remained an almost unknown emulator if it hadn't been for one "but"… A new version of Alcohol 120% was reported to be fully based on the DAEMON Tools engine. This moment can be considered to be a stepping stone of the product. People become more and more interested in DAEMON Tools with every passing day. And developers didn't disappoint users. First products DAEMON Tools Pro and DAEMON Tools Pro Advanced appeared on 21August, 2007. The version was not free of charge; however its functions were totally worth it. The key product advantage is its capability to bypass practically any anti-copying protection system. SecuROM, LaserLock, SafeDisc, RMPS and many other protection systems failed to protect disks against DAEMON Tools. However, it should be mentioned that the program failed to bypass all existing anti-copying protection systems. Another program's minor drawback is the fact that it can't burn CDs or DVDs. To make DAEMON Tools more convenient and easy-to-use a new graphic program interface was developed. All menu buttons resembles little levers each of which can turn on emulation of various protection types. Mind that you should create a disk image correctly in order to easily bypass any protection. To make this task much easier for you DAEMON Tools offers a wide variety of profiles that define certain settings for various types of protection. The product developers created a universal program compatible with almost any type of image file: .ccd, .pdi, .bwt, .cdi, .b5t, .nrg, .cue, .isz, .iso. DAEMON Tools can convert images to its own format .mds, which is a common feature with Alcohol 120%. Another irrefutable advantage of DAEMON Tools is its capability to compress images stored on the hard drive. This function considerably saves space of your computer. The process of image compression doesn't require much time and efforts. In other words, you have maximum disk space with minimum mounting and reading speed. DAEMON Tools turns out to be indispensable for users having many images on their computers. Another program's useful feature is creating disk catalogues. The software put to the catalogue all created images. In order to add new images to the existing catalogue a user should use file search option on the hard drives he or she needs. In the search window one should specify disks or folders and after the search is completed select the images you need to be added to the catalogue. Also a user can add images to the catalogue one by one with the help of "Add Images" command. Nowadays there are 4 versions of DAEMON Tools. They are Pro Advanced, Pro Standard, Lite and Net. DAEMON Tools Pro Standard is a paid product version allowing a user to emulate CD/DVD and HD DVD/Blu-Ray drives. This version supports installing up to 16 virtual devices (disks) simultaneously to mount images. Released product versions:
DAEMON Tools Pro Advanced is both paid and free version. It can emulate such formats of drives as CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu-ray. Unlike the Pro Standard version DAEMON Tools Pro Advanced can install up to 32 virtual devices. Experienced users are sure to appreciate another useful feature of the Pro Advanced version which is emulation of 4 IDE virtual devices. Released product versions:
DAEMON Tools Lite is a free version aimed for noncommercial home use only. The Lite version doesn't offer so many features as Pro Advanced and Pro Standard version do. It can't convert physical CD/DVD to the virtual ones. The program emulates up to 4 virtual drives. Released product versions:
DAEMON Tools Net is a relatively new and paid product. This version allows a user to work with images via network. Released product versions:
*Product release date is given in brackets. Thus, DAEMON Tools is a great program for creating virtual images of CD/DVD/HD DVD and Blu-ray disks. The program has all necessary functions to help users to save their time and resource of their disks and drives. |