This can be particularly convenient when you have a disc image that you’ll only use once or twice, so you avoid wasting a disc. This has a number of applications, but perhaps the most common for the average user is that you can access a disc image without burning it to disc. Mounting an image essentially means reading a file, but the difference is that the virtual CD-ROM, for instance, is reading that file as physical CD-ROM would read a physical CD, and Windows interacts with that virtual CD-ROM just as it would a physical version. The most common of these devices are virtual drives, such as a virtual CD or DVD.
DAEMON Tools is a Windows program that lets you create virtual devices and mount images on them.ĭAEMON Tools is an application that lets you create, manage and use virtual devices.