Do you want to emulate a disk image? Alcohol 120% program is the best solution!

Many professional PC users are well aware of a very high-quality and functional program for working with images. Alcohol 120% is a great utility that can not only create "phantoms" of various types of disks, bypassing their copy protection, but also emulate your existing images (the latter, as can be understood, is especially important). Any image of the disk this program will not only be able to substitute into a virtual drive, but also write to a physical medium.

Many domestic users have already collected so many witty jokes that are associated with the name of the application, that one can make a book of anecdotes from them. In fact, in English, the name of the program sounds much more prosaic, it can be translated as a "phantom". Naturally, virtual disks with full justification can be called phantom. Many users are also interested in why the name of the program includes a component of 120%? The fact is that before there were two completely different programs - 52 and 68%. By combining them in one product, the developers stressed the size of its potential.

If you have an original medium with valuable information, the loss of which can be costly to you, then the programs for creating a disk image (like "Alcohol") will help you to save it. This is especially valuable for gamers: the application allows not only to save the disk from rapid deterioration, but also avoids the long and tedious loading of the game. After all, it is no longer a slow optical drive, but a hard disk. And if you use SSD, then downloading your favorite toys and at all can become almost lightning fast.

Why did it happen that at home users when pronouncing the word "disk image" program Alcohol 120% immediately stands before my eyes? It's all about its stunning functionality, the small size of the installation file and the excellent optimization that allows you to work comfortably with Alcohol even on old computers. Agree, given the abundance of unwieldy monsters like Nero, the availability of such a utility is especially nice. By the way, if you want to create an Nero disk image (nrg format), you do not need to install the "parent" application: Alcohol supports the creation of almost all types of images.

But the skills of the program are not limited to this. It can search for files with the required extensions on the entire hard drive, and in recent versions they added "grabber", with which you can transfer music from CD to compressed MP3 format.

By the way, why create a disk image? The program or the movie can be launched directly from the physical media! Oh, it's not so simple. To begin with, the standard laser discs are extremely short-lived, and the information that is stored on them can be very valuable: for example, an installation package that costs more than one thousand rubles (if not dollars). Here it is worth pondering how to keep this carrier intact and fully intact for as long as possible.

In addition, as already mentioned, speed can be a considerable advantage. Remember how long a game can be loaded from a physical disk, what terrible sounds can the optical drive produce , and the brakes of the gameplay itself should also be mentioned separately! Among other things, for corporate customers equipping each workstation with an optical drive can be just unprofitable! Let's not argue, their cost has recently fallen sharply. But high-quality and reliable drives are still worth a lot, and buying cheap crafts is not reasonable.

The disk image itself will be easy to create. For inexperienced users, there is a wizard that will guide you in automatic mode through all the steps of this simple operation, and for advanced users it is possible to fine-tune dozens of parameters for copying disks, as well as using their images!