Circle Virtual CD 1.02

• License:

  Free

• Editor's Rating:

  3.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  2.0 stars (out of 32 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  78,604

• Requirements:

  Windows 2000/XP

• Limitations:

  No limitations

• Date Added:

  January 13, 2004

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Publisher's description of Circle Virtual CD

From Circle of One Software:

Circle Virtual CD creates a virtual CD-ROM drive on your Windows PC. This allows you to make images of your favorite CD-ROMs and use them without inserting a CD into a CD-ROM drive. Circle Virtual CD improves the speed at which you access data and stops you from having to switch disks in and out of your CD-ROM drive. Use the program to easily access your favorite games, music, or software programs. Since Circle Virtual CD uses CircleScan, nearly any CD can be imaged.

Editor's review of Circle Virtual CD

• 3.0 stars

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Options are few, but this disk-imaging utility effectively creates virtual copies of CDs. Putting it mildly, Circle Virtual CD's interface is dismal. The program first requires a source disk in the CD-ROM drive to transfer to the hard drive. From there, we were able to select the drive letter, and the program created a copy of the CD on our PC as its own virtual CD drive. You can run the copied program from the virtual drive as if a disk were loaded. During tests, the desktop shortcut created to run our virtual CD didn't work, although its folder icon launched just fine. A right click of the application's tray icon gave easy access to its interface and other options, such as ejecting the CD drive door. Although it doesn't offer any file-management features for organizing, copying, or deleting its creations, we are pleased with the results. Any user wanting to end the rotational CD game will find this free program quite beneficial.

User reviews

• Average user rating: 2.3 stars out of 32 votes
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• 4 stars

  1 out of 2 people found this review helpful

  Version: Circle Virtual CD 1.02

  "You don't need a pretty face to get the job done"

  by Darth_Ninja on April 7, 2007

  Pros: It works (no crashes like other people reported) I'm running Windows XP MCE.

  It works by copying the CD to a .hvc format (not .iso) and creating a virtual cd drive. then it mounts the .hvc file to the drive and it runs like a regular cd drive (note: the auto run part of the disc may not work)

  Cons: it doesn't look great - but hey it's free!

  some other people complained about the virtual drive showing up as "Z" drive, this is do the fact that windows has default letters for drives (A for floppys & C for the main hard drive) but most letters are from the beginning of the alphabet that is why Z is used (to avoid a conflict)

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• 2 stars

  1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

  Version: Circle Virtual CD 1.02

  "Good for copying images, but makes system crash!"

  by yoh yah on August 8, 2006

  Pros: You are able to copy cds that are copyrighted, but other than that nothing too special about this.

  Cons: If you try to insert the image you copied, your system will crash automatically. Also you can't do anything about the drive letter "Z." The GUI (Graphics User Interface) is very bad and very boring.

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• -1 stars

  Version: Circle Virtual CD 1.02

  "Good"

  by nhanduongvan on March 13, 2008

  Pros: Verygood

  Cons: I Like

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• 1 stars

  Version: Circle Virtual CD 1.02

  "what's the true? the editor says its good but the comment says its harmful"

  by solohizta on December 26, 2007

  Pros: dont know

  Cons: dont know........

  im afraid to try it

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• 1 stars

  Version: Circle Virtual CD 1.02

  "MAKE NO MISTAKE - this DOES make your PC crash"

  by madsnp on March 12, 2006

  Pros: None... made my laptop crash with the blue screen of death in a loop due to the drivers installed by this program

  Cons: I had to remove the software from the basic windows settings (f8 on boot) - don't installe this...

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