In addition to mounting optical media images, it can also mount archives as virtual drives.ĭuring installation it gives you options of how many virtual drives you want to be installed in Windows, whether you want to auto-run WinArchiver Virtual Drive at Windows startup and if you want to auto-mount previously mounted ISO images. A software like WinArchiver Virtual Drive can help you mount CD/DVD images easily in Windows. However, if you do not want to burn these ISO images on a real physical blank CD or DVD and also do not want to create a bootable USB drive, then you can use a virtual drive software to use them in Windows. But now things have completely changed as now we just download the new version of operating systems in form of ISO or other types of CD/DVD images and use them to create our own installation media with the help of tools like Rufus. Some people may even boast of their Floppy Disks collection containing Microsoft Windows installation.

There was a time when people used to stand in long lines in front of computer stores hours before the release of new version of Microsoft Windows on a CD or DVD disk.

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