Microtest VIRTUAL CD v3 manual First Steps, All roads lead to Rome, Creating a Virtual CD

First Steps

To work with the Virtual CD program, you need to begin by creating a virtual CD. Then you will insert this new virtual CD into a virtual CD drive.

"All roads lead to Rome..."

There are a number of ways to start Virtual CD, which means you can customise your use according to your personal preferences. When you want to create or insert a virtual CD, you can begin by run- ning either the Start Wizard or the Management program, by clicking on the quick-start icon in the system tray, or by selecting a VCD program from a context-sensitive menu in Explorer.

The examples given here use only one method each time a particular function is described. See the on-line Help for detailed descriptions of the other choices.

Creating a Virtual CD

Insert the original CD from which you want to create a virtual image into your CD drive. Make sure the CD is not scratched or dirty.

Wait a few seconds for Windows to detect the CD.

Note: Make sure the CD is not accessed by any other program while you are making the virtual CD. Close the programs – such as the Windows CD Player – in your Autostart group.

(The first time you start Virtual CD, by clicking on its icon on your desktop, a Wizard starts that offers to help you create a virtual CD. See below for details about selecting a source CD.)

Double-click on the "My Computer" symbol on your desktop to view a list of the available drives.

Right-click on the physical CD drive that contains your source CD :

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This opens a context-sensitive menu, to which Virtual CD has added the command Create a virtual CD. Select this option to start the Image Wizard, which guides you step by step through the creation of a virtual CD. Click on Next to select the source CD: