Virtual Drive For Mac

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A virtual drive, also called virtual disc or disk emulator, is a non-existing drive that does not physically exist in the computer. But the disk emulator is necessary tool for many people. You get a disc image of a popular video game, for example. it allows you to play the game without burning the image to a disc. Plus, many movie enthusiasts back up their DVD movies as ISO image, which is not a playable format. It also enables you watch the movies without discs. Many people prefer to use disk emulator more than physical disk, because disc image and virtual disk have better performance. They run faster than optical drives and are able to bypass the spinning up process, which is necessary for the optical drive. Moreover, it could protect DVDs and other discs. With a virtual drive, you can use the disc image as a real disc without damaging the original one. And you can set up dozens of separate them from one image file. Considering it is so important, we will talk about how to use it to mount disc images in this post.

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  1. WinISO Virtual Drive – a tool for mounting disc images onto your PC. Virtual Drive is a virtual CD/DVD/Blu-ray emulator which can create disc images and do as the real drive did. It can back up the disc images in your hard disk when you need to use this file, just click the drive icon on your PC.
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  3. The application works and behaves just like a physical DVD or Blu-ray drive. Image files can be 'inserted' into the virtual drive from either your hard drive or from a network drive. Virtual CloneDrive supports up to 15 virtual drives at the same time, they can be image files contains audio, video or data.
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Simple and easy to use, MacDrive is recognized as the leader for accessing Mac disks from Windows for almost 20 years. Once you plug in your Mac disk, behind the scenes MacDrive works to seamlessly enable Windows understand HFS+ disks and allow you to read and write to the disk.

Part 1. Create disc image for Virtual Drive

Today, people almost could download anything from internet. If you need a video game or an operating system, you can download their disc images online easily. But if you already have a physical disc, you can create a disc image by your own. We recommend you using Tipard DVD Cloner, because it is one of the most stable ISO creators on market.

How to create disc image with Tipard DVD Cloner

Download the correct version of DVD Cloner from its official website and follow the on-screen instruction to install it on your PC. Insert the disc you want to back up into computer's optical drive and run DVD Cloner.

Step 2

Go to File menu and choose Load DVD option to load the entire DVD. After DVD loaded, you can preview the files and videos first. Then locate to bottom area of the interface and press the Full Copy button.

Choose your DVD drive from the Source drop-down list and ISO image from the Target drop-down list. Click on the Next button to continue.

Step 5

Here you can pick a location to save the disc image by clicking on the button with three-point icon in After Burning section.

Finally, click on the Start button to start creating disc image for virtual drive.

After a few minutes, you can get the ISO image file saved in the location you set in step 4.

Part 2. How to mount disc image in Windows 7

Windows 7 and early versions do not have built-in virtual drive capacity, so you have to use a third party tool to mount disc images, such as DVDFab Virtual Drive.

Right-click on the disc image file and choose Mount option.

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Step 2

If you already install the software in your Windows 7, it will appear on the available virtual drive list. Press DVDFab Virtual Drive to mount the disc image.

Then you can use the disc image as a physical disc, although there is no physical disc in optical drive.

Part 3. How to use virtual drive in Windows 8/ Window 10

Windows 8 and later versions support ISO mounting natively, so you do not need to download and install any software on your computer.

Right-click on the ISO image file and choose Windows Explorer from the Open with list.

Step 2

Then the disc image will show as a disc in a virtual disk. If it is a DVD movie image, you can play it in any media player supports DVD.

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When you want to unmount the disc image, right-click on the virtual drive that the disc image is mounted in and choose Eject to unmount the disc image.

Part 4. How to mount ISO on a virtual drive on Mac

Apple has integrated virtual drive Mac in the operation system, so you can create a virtual drive through ISO image directly.

Locate to the folder contains the ISO image file and mount ISO file by double-clicking. If it is mounted successfully, you can find the disc image on your desktop like an inserted DVD.

Step 2

If double-clicking is not successful, you can go to Disk Utility. Choose Open Disk Image under the File menu and select the ISO file you want to mount. Then it will be mounted on your desktop. Disk Utility works for most disc image formats, including ISO, DMG and IMG.

Part 5. How to make a virtual drive under Linux

Linux is a special operating system; but as Mac OS X, Linux is able to turn ISO image to a virtual drive natively.

  • 1. Switch to root user with following command, if not login as a root user: $ su -
  • 2. Type in the command line below to create a directory to mount the ISO: # mkdir –p /mnt/disk.
    You can replace disk in the command line with any folder name as you wish.
  • 3. Mount the image file with the command line: # mount –o loop [sample].iso /mnt/disk/
    Replace [sample] with the image filename and disk with the folder name you customized in step 2.
  • 4. Then the image file has been mounted and you can access it as a physical disk.

Conclusion

Virtual drive has many benefits, so game players, movie enthusiasts and other people prefer the drive to optical drive and physical disc. In this article, we shared the basic methods to mount ISO images on virtual disc on different platforms. Windows 7 and earlier versions do not have the features, but there are many third party tools available. Windows 8/8.1, 10, and Mac OS X, Linux have embedded the virtual driver natively, so you can mount an ISO file by the built-in one directly. If you want to mount an ISO file on a virtual drive, you have to create an ISO file first. We recommend you using Tipard DVD Cloner to extract image from a disc, because this application has the capacity to create high quality ISO files.

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These advanced steps are primarily for system administrators and others who are familiar with the command line. You don't need a bootable installer to upgrade macOS or reinstall macOS, but it can be useful when you want to install on multiple computers without downloading the installer each time.

Download macOS

Find the appropriate download link in the upgrade instructions for each macOS version:

macOS Catalina, macOS Mojave, ormacOS High Sierra
Installers for each of these macOS versions download directly to your Applications folder as an app named Install macOS Catalina, Install macOS Mojave, or Install macOS High Sierra. If the installer opens after downloading, quit it without continuing installation. Important: To get the correct installer, download from a Mac that is using macOS Sierra 10.12.5 or later, or El Capitan 10.11.6. Enterprise administrators, please download from Apple, not a locally hosted software-update server.

OS X El Capitan
El Capitan downloads as a disk image. On a Mac that is compatible with El Capitan, open the disk image and run the installer within, named InstallMacOSX.pkg. It installs an app named Install OS X El Capitan into your Applications folder. You will create the bootable installer from this app, not from the disk image or .pkg installer.

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Use the 'createinstallmedia' command in Terminal

  1. Connect the USB flash drive or other volume that you're using for the bootable installer. Make sure that it has at least 12GB of available storage and is formatted as Mac OS Extended.
  2. Open Terminal, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder.
  3. Type or paste one of the following commands in Terminal. These assume that the installer is still in your Applications folder, and MyVolume is the name of the USB flash drive or other volume you're using. If it has a different name, replace MyVolume in these commands with the name of your volume.
    Catalina:*
    Mojave:*

    High Sierra:*
    El Capitan:
  4. Press Return after typing the command.
  5. When prompted, type your administrator password and press Return again. Terminal doesn't show any characters as you type your password.
  6. When prompted, type Y to confirm that you want to erase the volume, then press Return. Terminal shows the progress as the bootable installer is created.
  7. When Terminal says that it's done, the volume will have the same name as the installer you downloaded, such as Install macOS Catalina. You can now quit Terminal and eject the volume.

* If your Mac is using macOS Sierra or earlier, include the --applicationpath argument, similar to the way this argument is used in the command for El Capitan.

Use the bootable installer

After creating the bootable installer, follow these steps to use it:

  1. Plug the bootable installer into a compatible Mac.
  2. Use Startup Manager or Startup Disk preferences to select the bootable installer as the startup disk, then start up from it. Your Mac will start up to macOS Recovery.
    Learn about selecting a startup disk, including what to do if your Mac doesn't start up from it.
  3. Choose your language, if prompted.
  4. A bootable installer doesn't download macOS from the Internet, but it does require the Internet to get information specific to your Mac model, such as firmware updates. If you need to connect to a Wi-Fi network, use the Wi-Fi menu in the menu bar.
  5. Select Install macOS (or Install OS X) from the Utilities window, then click Continue and follow the onscreen instructions.

Learn more

For more information about the createinstallmedia command and the arguments that you can use with it, make sure that the macOS installer is in your Applications folder, then enter this path in Terminal:

Catalina:

Mojave:

High Sierra:

El Capitan: