Virtual Hard Drive Pro takes a portion of your system memory and creates a RAM drive, which functions like a physical hard drive, only with much better access rates. A RAM drive bypasses the system hard drive, which is the slowest part of a computer, to give your system an immediate boost. Files run up to 340 times faster, making Virtual Hard Drive Pro the program of choice for reducing server load and improving software performance.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Chinese
• Release: 2007-10-18
• Size: 18 Mb
• Cost: 29.99 $

Create Virtual Drives from long paths, it's easy! Type the full path or browse to the path via the Drive and Folder Lists. Choose a drive letter from the “Available Virtual Drive Letters” list, Click [Add Virtual Drive] to create the virtual drive, or Double Click the letter. Make CD-ROMs obsolete, copy the contents of the CD-ROM to a folder on your Hard Drive and install it from there, then run the Virtual CD from your hard drive.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-01-06
• Size: 356 Kb
• Cost: Free

Virtual Drive SDK allows you to create and manage virtual disks that appear in Windows as regular disks. Virtual disk can be located anywhere: on hard disk, network, random access memory, database etc. Virtual Drive SDK makes possible to implement read/write operations without having to develop your own kernel driver. All necessary part of boring work is done, so you can focus on storage, encryption etc.

• License: Demo
• Language: English
• Release: 2008-04-27
• Size: 458 Kb
• Cost: Free

Protect private and sensitive data from potential unauthorized access. The main features:1.Full characters of virtual USB Flash memory disk and function of plug and play.2.Unlimited volume and free choice of the volume of Virtual Flash Drive.3.Method of Encryption algorithm: DES, MD5, free choice of user on the encrypting degree. 4.Possibility to support 4 independent Virtual Flash Drives.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2008-05-10
• Size: 880 Kb
• Cost: 19.95 $

Paraben's P2 eXplorer allows you to mount a forensic image (or Linux DD, RAW, or other drive images) and explore it as though it were a drive on your machine while preserving the forensic nature of your evidence. This means that an image isn't just mounted to view logical files, it is mounted as the actual bitstream image, preserving unallocated, slack, and deleted data.

• License: Demo
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-03-24
• Size: 7 Mb
• Cost: 199.00 $

Safe your files on an encrypted file clipboard (local, network, ftp-server) and protect the data against illegal access. The abylon SHAREDDRIVE (encrypted data drive) is full integrated in the File Explorer and supports the simultaneous access by several users. Only with correct password, USB stick, smart card or certificate the access is possible. The encrypting are automatically in the background, without additional operation via the user.

• License: Shareware
• Language: German, English, Spanish
• Release: 2006-05-20
• Size: 5 Mb
• Cost: 37.00 $

Are you tired of scratching or losing your favorite PC game discs? Or of swapping out discs and waiting for them to load? GameDrive converts your PC games into "virtual discs," which run directly on your hard drive in place of physical discs. This protects original discs from loss, theft, and damage, PLUS a virtual disc has much better access rates than a physical disc in a physical ROM drive. Now with 64-bit support!

• License: Demo
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-09-01
• Size: 31 Mb
• Cost: 29.99 $

Protect your discs from wear and tear. Get better playback while you're at it! VirtualDrive Pro CD emulator converts your CDs and unprotected DVDs into "virtual CDs" -- MP3-like files that run directly on your hard drive. A virtual CD has access rates far superior to a physical disc in a CD-ROM drive, and VirtualDrive Pro's included RAM disk software lets you run applications in memory up to 340 times faster.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Chinese
• Release: 2007-07-23
• Size: 44 Mb
• Cost: 39.99 $

SimDisc copies the content of a CD or DVD to your HDD, creating a so-called virtual CD or DVD respectively. During creation of the virtual disc, it uses the full set of features available for the particular reading device. SimDisc comes with a highly effective archival tool for managing your virtual CDs/DVDs on hard disk, CD, DVD or other mass storage devices which even allows to attach additional files like patches or comments.

• License: Shareware
• Language: German, English
• Release: 2005-08-03
• Size: 6 Mb
• Cost: 39.99 $

Convert your CDs and DVDs into files that run directly on a hard drive. Play games without inserting the physical discs -- simply click on a desktop icon to launch a virtual CD with access rates up to 200 times faster than a CD-ROM. Share virtual CDs over a network, and enjoy access rates up to 200 times faster than physical CDs, boosting the performance of PC games, photo CDs, and disc-based applications.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Chinese
• Release: 2007-07-23
• Size: 36 Mb
• Cost: 29.99 $

"Extra Drive Creator" - program designed to make access to frequently used folders of your computer easier. It is also used to create, edit and remove virtual drives of your computer. "Extra Drive Creator" creates virtual drives on the basis of selected folders. Physical drives remain unchanged and are not divided into additional partitions.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Russian
• Release: 2004-09-23
• Size: 323 Kb
• Cost: 19.99 $

Kakra Private Disk is a small, efficient and reliable program that allows you to create,edit and remove encrypted virtual disks.It also be used in conjunction with a broad range of portable media, for instance: USB flash drives, external hard disks, mp3 players or iPods.Kakra Private Disk protects user sensitive data from all kinds of e-dangers such as unauthorized access, computer viruses, information theft or computer hijacking.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2008-03-05
• Size: 886 Kb
• Cost: 24.95 $

Extra Drive Creator Pro - suite of tools for creating Extra drives on your computer (physical drives remain unchanged and are not divided into additional partitions). The program includes tools for creating Crypted drives, Virtual CD-ROMs, Virtual Drives based on files, Virtual Drives based on folders, RAM-drives...

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Arabic, German, Hungarian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish
• Release: 2006-04-07
• Size: 490 Kb
• Cost: 29.99 $

The Returnil Virtual System Personal Edition provides an altogether different and highly complimentary level of defense. It is designed to protect your computer from all types of software, downloads, websites or anything else that might harbor viruses, spyware and other malicious programs.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English, Chinese, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
• Release: 2008-03-19
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: Free

The Returnil Virtual System Business Edition is a powerful virtualization technology that completely mirrors your actual computer setup and it can create a virtual storage disk within your PC where you can save documents, data, and files while using the System Protection feature. It provides a simple, effective, and smart way to prevent unwanted or malicious changes from being made to your PC.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
• Release: 2007-10-20
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: Free

Lockngo Professional encrypts and password protects flash drives, portable drives and external disks using 256-bit AES military specification unbreakable encryption with a wiping mechanism that writes random data on deleted files so that they cannot be restored. Lockngo Professional is offering this level of security while running directly from the removable drive with no installation. Lockngo Professional is fast, smart and Very easy to use.

• License: Commercial
• Language: English, Arabic, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
• Release: 2005-08-01
• Size: 311 Kb
• Cost: 39.00 $

Encrypted virtual disks manager. SecretDrive is a small, efficient and reliable program that allows you to create up to 8 encrypted virtual disks. Virtual disk is protected by one of five modern encryption algorithms: AES (Rijndael), GOST 28174-89, Blowfish, Twofish, CAST 256.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Russian
• Release: 2008-04-18
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: 34.99 $

With CallbackDisk you can create and manage virtual disk devices within your application and expose these disks to Windows as if they were real disk devices. The disks become visible to all process in the system. CallbackDisk provides a kernel-mode driver, which calls your application when it needs to perform reading or writing to the disk. And your application can store the actual disk data anywhere it needs: in memory, over the net etc. .

• License: Commercial
• Language: English
• Release: 2007-03-10
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 1080.00 $

SafeIT Secure Disk is a user-friendly program that allows you to prevent unauthorized access to restricted documents. The program makes a part of your current hard disk a secure disk. All private and confidential information stored on this disk will be protected using strong encryption. Your secure disk is only accessible by entering the correct password. The user friendly interface makes securing a file as easy as copying it.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish
• Release: 2005-12-21
• Size: 8 Mb
• Cost: 49.95 $

Protect your data against illegal access with the abylon CRYPTDRIVE. The encrypted drives (AES- or Blowfish-algorithm) can be open with passwords, chip card, USB-Token, CD or certificate (PKCS) and use like a normal drive in the File Explorer. During every file operation the encryption works transparently in the background and nearly without time delay. In case of losing your notebook, the closed drives are invisible and secure like a safe.

• License: Shareware
• Language: German, English, Spanish
• Release: 2006-05-15
• Size: 5 Mb
• Cost: 37.00 $