Virtual Drives Question.

[Paladin77]

First I would like to thank the author and support team of this great software.

 

As the topic says and quickly and simply I ask: Does all installed Virtual Drivers installed detrimentally affect the drive speeds or is it only the SPTD driver installed by software like Daemon Tools, Astroburn and Alcohol 120%?

 

I am asking because I gave Daemon tools a 1 way ticket to the dumpster (I am quoting Cynthia here ) due to issues in Windows 7 in addition to slow and aberrant drive performance.

 

I replaced it with VirtualClone Drive as my virtual disc utility only to find out it does install a driver of its own like shown below:

 

 

As for Imgburn it doesn't really show any warnings or notable speed changes, but just to make sure when I recommend the imgburn Vclone combo I would like to ask, will this new VClone driver affect the drive performance?

 

Thnx in Advance and sorry if this question has been asked before I searched but closest matches were regarding SPTD driver.

 

 

Regards

Paladin77

[mmalves]

As far as we know only SPTD can cause problems. Have you used their utility to remove SPTD?

[Paladin77]

Yes I did use their utility and since I know what I am doing I walked the extra mile to remove any traces of legacy SPTD driver in the Windows Registry. I do not get warnings in imgburn. I like Virtual Clone more since its easier to use and I can right click to quickly mount an image but as I said would like to know if its driver will have any effect.

Edited September 5, 2009 by Paladin77

[Cynthia]

Both I and the author uses VCD and no issues found.

 

You'll find the latest version of VCD here:

 

http://forum.slysoft.com/forumdisplay.php?f=21

 

I used Neros tool in the past, but for some reason it's gone in later versions of the Nero suite.

[Paladin77]

Thanks alot Cynthia. And I hope u didn't mind me quoting you

[Cynthia]

I'm not a big fan of certain brand of burners.

 

Bought some of those in the past and they all ended up in that place.

[Paladin77]

Oh one Final question. I started imgburn today and checked for firmware update I found an update to the LG GT10N drive from 1.01 to 1.06 but that firmware according to firmware hq seems to belong to Dell. My laptop is an MSI should I ignore this update or what?

 

Thnx

Paladin77

[mmalves]

The one on FirmwareHQ.com is A106, not 1.06, so it's probably incompatible with your burner.

[Cynthia]

Try to search the MSI web page, if there is one, it should be on their web page.

 

[Paladin77]

checked MSI site no firmware updates. Great website btw has all utilities and new drivers for my lappy ^^