How to Use Daemon Tools, a Free Virtual CD, DVD and Disk Emulator
DAEMON Tools is the leading disk image emulator which can be used to mount images of a CD or DVD on virtual drives.
Advantages of using DAEMON Tools:
1. Using such a disk image emulator means that you don’t have to swap disks if you wish to run different programs
2. With the need to contantly swap disks, you eliminate the possibility of scratching of the disc.
3. DAEMON tools lets you bypass a lot of copyright restrictions in game CD’s or DVD’s. DAEMON Tools enables users to run games and other programs on their laptops without requiring them to bring an entire library of CD or DVD media around with them, which is safer and more convenient.
4. Several disk images can be loaded at once, which can be useful for installing or using software that ships on multiple discs and requires shuffling between them during use.
DAEMON Tools supports the following image files:
* cue/bin
* iso
* ccd (CloneCD)
* bwt (Blindwrite)
* mds (Media Descriptor File)
* cdi (Discjuggler)
* nrg (Nero)
* pdi (Instant CD/DVD)
* b5t (BlindWrite 5)
Installation of DAEMON Tools (for all Operating Systems)
Step # 1: Download Daemon tools from Daemon tools download site
Download the latest version of DAEMON Tools (v 4.09.1 released April 16, 2007)
Step # 2: Open Daemon.exe and click Install
Step # 3: Follow the on-screen instructions. You maybe required to reboot your computer before running DAEMON Tools. After reboot, a SCSI controller will be added
How to Mount an Image using DAEMON Tools
1. Right-click on the DAEMON Tools trayicon
2. Select Virtual CD/DVD-ROM
3. Select Device
4. Click Mount
5. Browse and select the image you wish to mount
6. Click OK or double-click on the file to mount
Potential for copyright infringement
Though they have many legitimate uses, a potential use of emulation tools such as this one is to copy copy-protected material, which may violate copyright law. To curb the act of copyright infringement, the authors of emulation tools usually state that they do not endorse copyright infringement and that their tools should not be used for that purpose.
Some software publishers, particularly game publishers, go to great lengths to try to disable or frustrate DAEMON Tools. For example, some games will check to see if the driver for DAEMON Tools is loaded, and if so will take some action, such as refusing to run, or uninstalling the toolset (even if the game was bought legally). Typically, as such copy protections are deployed, new versions of DAEMON Tools are released. For example, revision 4.06 randomizes the name of the virtual driver installed by the software.
Warning: The author or AskStudent do not endorse using Daemon Tools for Copyright infrigement. Obtaining or distributing copyright content is against the law. Please use legal means to play the games or run the software you need.
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if i double click it wont work i dont know y
I hope this will work
After 6. Click OK or double-click on the file to mount – then what?
Is Daemon always needed to run the program.
What does “Mount and Install” mean, if these were the instructions I was given?
Are there permanent changes to the operating system that cannot be undone?
hey i downloaded stronghold 3 game and i copyed 2 dvd cd and i installed and says i need oriangle cd , how can daemon tools help with that??
no….daemon doesn’t work you wil need a crack to lunch that game without original disc…..good luck
hey! I wnat to ask if any of those securoms and stuff needed to be on?
because it isn’t working==”
help ! i dont know how to select the image . My image is not there i cant find it i have trouble playing sims 2
im very sadd .
hahaha i did it with sims 2 also.. and this is my first time doing this.. so you can only guess how confused i am! haha i WOULD OF downloaded sims 3 but i dont have enough memory on my computer
so thats why i am getting a new one next weekend.. ahaha… i think ill just make my boyfriend do the mounting this or whatever when i get it haha.
hey pepol how can i use daemon tool on a downloaded games?? it is a free trial game or has time limit. will daemon tools can run it as full version?? pls pls pls tell me….
Yea i tried this a few times. with different image formats. With Warcraft 3, its kept telling me too insert my Disc. even after i had mounted the image… wtf?
me too im so confused
you wil need a crack to lunch that game…..good luck
im having the same problem – can somene please tell me how to fix this…it says please insert a DVD-Rom and retry or something…..
After trying several times all the steps you said but the file didn’t open. What should i do??
yeah if i right click the daemon tools icon i don’t see any mount option.
Please help quickly!
Hey,
So I downloaded it, and clicked install, and i had to reboot it. So I did that and when it was back up nothing had happened. So I clicked it, and it said ‘update’ ‘uninstall’ ‘cancel’ so What am I suppose to do, its installed, but I can’t use it..
thank you
ha….you wil need (direct x 9.0c)if don’t the game will need to update
i SUCKED A DICK, LICKED A BALLSACK, NOW WHAT?
Me to. now you have to have some gay doggy style and 69r with me you horrny fucking terrorist dick head tosser.
you stupid motherfuckers have to be the dumbest of the lot that I’ve ever seen. You fucking parasites should be in school, learning how to spell, not downloading stuff, that will fuck up mommy/daddy’s computer.
Bitches!
is this really true??
will 8 work??
There is freakin million question but no answer,i can’t find any cd virtual or f– real when i right click
Yeah I Know this. It is a great software. I don’t know what the LOLs were doing with it. They don’t know even to right-click ! Well, it ran outstandingly well on my computer and I play a lot of games without inserting a cd or dvd
i just downloaded a game and i cant find a mount file, what do i do?
ok me and my bf both installed Diablo II and we both have demon tools installed on our computers.
Since we only have 1 game ( mine ) we both want to play.
I went into the saved/installed folder, there isnt any img’s to add.
I went into the CD/ROM itself and still nothing.
Can someone help?
I know its possible because we did it at a internet cafe a long long time ago.
hey, im not sure what the image is… is it just the icon of the game? or the file in iso form
wow you guys are noobs, it’s so easy
Mine also does not work when I double click on it. Any suggestions?
Wow, cant you “know it alls” just say how to do it instead of just saying its easy? Or dont you know how to explain it?
Well, this is what I do. Once you mount the image (iso, etc) open My Computer for XP or Computer for Vista and look for the virtual driver where you mount your image. Click it and install whatever it is that you want to install just like how you would with an actual disc. That easy. Hope this help.
ya so i am having the same problem. I installed the porgram and when I try to right click on my desktop it does not have the Virtual CD/ DVD option….should I unistall and try and install it again from another site.
Thanks a bunch. Lol, I kept trying to just open the program. I didn’t even notice the red icon at the bottom.
Make sure the drive its mounted on is correct. I had to open a system file for the game i was playing to find out it was loading from z: so changed what drive it was mounting from
yea this is like really easy and all
but i ran into a game that wants me to insert a disc when i play and since i dont have the disc i try to just use daemon tools to get the virtual drive but it doesnt work.
where would i find the disc image in the sims 3. or in any game for that matter?
Daemon Tools are simply shit ! Fucking Tools.. I tried so many times to run the game”Call of Duty & Quantum of Solace” but result is nill.
And so complicated to use these tools, still then also i m not able to mount the image.
when i click ok it doesn’t work
daemon tools is easy to use, if u need any help using it, tell me your problem and i’ll tell you the steps to fix it
I downloaded an Adobe ISO, I mounted it, ran the file, then just before instillation it asks me to insert the disk, but the disk is in the drive it’s asking me to put it into…
Help?
change the drive character eg d:/ to e:/ which might help or check to see you have the updated version of daemon tools
if you give me your email you send you the full version of the daemon tools
Hey…..i dont know whats causing this problem but whenever i mount an image(iso) from a back up copy of Sims 2(its got a crack)…….it either comes “Please insert a disk into drive H:” (thats my virtual drive) or when the setup for game installation is running a message saying a problem has occured appears…..my computer’s real dVd drive is G:……..should i change the drive letter in my comp coz DT cant set parameters above H??if so how should i do it?……please help ive been wanting to play this game like forever!!!
The instructions tell me to Mount the image that was extracted with daemon. What image??
chris: an image is the file that is usually on a CD that lets the game run. if you install the Daemon tools lite version from the official website you can then open it and look down by your clock in the bottom right hand corner of your screen. right click and select the file you need to mount and click mount.
ayee i downloaded starcarft coz my disk broke right and i mounted it then went to my computer, then clicked play and it tells me it cant read the disc HELP ME ASAP
I downloaded an Adobe ISO, I mounted it, ran the file, then just before instillation it asks me to insert the disk, but the disk is in the drive it’s asking me to put it into…
daemon is so cool i bet the Pentagons trying 2 figure out whos behind the program
once you mount the iso, go to my computer and run if from there, once installed, and if the program requires a CD once installed, make sure the disk is always mounted when required
i know the people who created the Daemon tools program, if anyone finds any bugs or errors, send them to me and i’ll forward them to the programers of it
>>email is: dread_doom@hotmail.com
Daemon Tools works perfectly fine, and it allows me to play Titan Quest: The Immortal Throne perfectly. Thanks a lot whoever made it =D
people who dont know how to use it: wow. it’s really the simplest thing. stick the cd u want to mount into ur cd tray, close the cd tray, right click the little lightning bolt thingy, and then click disk imaging, then select which one to mount… its not that hard.
this worked great the first time, but i’m confused i make a virtual drive and it doesn’t show up on my computer, I can mount but I can’t intall.
CAN ANYBODY HELP ME
Увлекательно, хотя не мешало бы чуть подетальней написать, а то есть несколько непонятных моментов
PLZ….. help me, I try’d to mount assasins creed but everytime I try to do it a little black screen appears for a second and than goes away, and I have to start over. PLZ…. help me.
Hey…..i dont know whats causing this problem but whenever i mount an image(iso) from a back up copy of Sims 2(its got a crack)…….it either comes “Please insert a disk into drive H:” (thats my virtual drive) or when the setup for game installation is running a message saying a problem has occured appears…..my computer’s real dVd drive is G:……..should i change the drive letter in my comp coz DT cant set parameters above H??if so how should i do it?……please help ive been wanting to play this game like forever!!!
Hey wud up guys, i really wuld like sum1 2 hlp me out. Ok here goes. I jst gat nfs prostreet but it was in .7z file format so i extracted d files using universal extractor but ani time i click d autorun/EAsetup it keeps telling me to insert d nfsprostreet cd/dvd? Can sum1 plss tell me hw 2 install it. Wuld appreciate it, mi mail badbanky@yahoo.Com. 1luv 2 yall.
i installed civilization 4 and i cant play it cause it says i need the disk, but i dont have the disk, so how do i play it without a disk? I tryed all that mount shit and it stilll says that need the disk, i have the crack…..anyone wanna buy lol (joke)
why cant i mount games with this i tried mounting empire earth3 with this but it says there is nothing to mount