NWA-PCUG Newsletter Article, July 2005
Creat A Virtual Drive
by Bob and Joy Schwabach
June 2005, Week 3, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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One of the many annoyances of the computer age is the request to "Please insert the disk" when you want to run a program. Then you have to figure out what you did with that disk and try not to say anything really bad in front of the kids. One solution is to load it all onto your hard drive and never have to look for the disk again.

You can do this with Virtual Drive from FarStone Technology. It allows you to copy the contents of any CD into a partition it creates on your hard drive. You can do this many times with many disks. Since most new computers come with hard drives that have far more storage capacity than most people use, this seems like a good thing to do with all that space.

NOTE: Some programs won't let you load their contents onto a hard disk. They have a programming routine that checks to see if you have the disk in the CD drive. Presumably this is to prevent illegal copies, but it's a big nuisance.

Virtual Drive is for Windows, free to try, $40 to buy, from www.farstone.com. So far, over 10 million users have downloaded it.

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