Virtual Drives Apps and Alternatives

Virtual drives are devices that are considered by the operating system to be common physical disk drives, but that in fact use disk emulations instead of the regular hardware device. As such, all the other programs you might use would see no different between your virtual and physical devices.

Virtual drives require specialized software to be created, and they can emulate hard drives, floppy drives, CD / DVD / BD / HD DVD, and network shares.

The purpose of creating virtual drives is usually related to installing an operating system on a virtual machine, but it also comes in handy when trying to work with various applications.

Applications that can create virtual drives provide an interface for mounting and unmounting disc image files and can also process several files at the same time.
It is worth mentioning that a plethora of image formats are supported by the most powerful applications belonging to this category, and they include ISO, IMG, MDX, CCD, VDI, VMDK, VHD, CDI, and ZIP.