Chapter 4 Building a VCD (Virtual CD)

4.1 Building VCDs from the CD drive

To use VirtualDrive, you first create an image of a CD on your hard drive. This image is known as a Virtual CD or VCD. You can build a VCD from almost any type of CD, including:

VirtualDrive 7 supports DVD-ROM games, encyclopedias, multi-media content, and other very large file formats.

You build a VCD using one of the 5 following methods.

(a) Click the Build  button on the toolbar.

(b) Select File from the menu bar and choose Build.

(c) Right Click the VirtualDrive icon in the System tray and select Build VCD from the popup menu.  

(d) Use shortcut key Ctrl+B.  

(e) Opening Windows Explorer and right click the inserted physical drive and select Build VCD File from the popup menu (Figure 4-1).  

            (Figure 4-1)

If you are using CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, Video CD, DVD-Video, or Photo CD to build, please follow the steps below.

Step 1. Select the physical CD drive then click on Next.

Step 2 Verify the selected hard drive has sufficient ‘Free Space’ (Figure 4-1a) to store the new VCD then use the File Browser to select a location to save the VCD. Give the new VCD file a name. If no new name is entered, the new VCD will use the name of the folder in which it is to be stored as the VCD file name.  

                                    Figure 4-1a

Step 3 Select the CD Read method and whether to use data compression if desired.

The default read method is 'Normal' and is successful for most CD formats. However, because some CDs contain inaccurate volume information, use the 'Intelligent extraction' if a VCD has been successfully built but does not run as expected. Using Data Compression will save hard disk space but will also require a longer VCD build time.

Step 4 Enter a Description of the new VCD in the Description box (Figure 4-1b)  

                                    Figure 4-1b  

Step 5 (optional) If the CD does not have an Auto-Run then you can specify a program to run when the VCD is inserted. You can use the Browse button to locate the executable program.

Step 6 (optional) Choose whether or not to eject the CD from the CD drive once the Build is complete by checking the ‘Eject the VCD on completion of the Build process’ box (Figure .4-1b above). Click on Next to continue.  

Step 7 Virtual Drive will then display the attributes of the VCD about to be created. Click on Next to begin the building.

Step 8 When the VCD has been successfully built, click on OK to exit the Build popup then click on Finish to close the VCD Build window (Figure 4-1c).  

                                   Figure 4-1c