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Features
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Editor's Rating:
Not rated
- Average User Rating:
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Downloads:
249,002
- Operating Systems:
Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Additional Requirements:
Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista
- Limitations:
No limitations
- Date Added:
September 05, 2007
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Publisher's description of MagicDisc 2.5.79
From MagicISO:MagicDisc Virtual CD/DVD-ROM is a utility designed for creating and managing virtual CD drives and CD/DVD discs. MagicDisc Virtual CD/DVD-ROM emulates audio, data, and game CDs and DVDs with ISO image, CD and DVD images. MagicDisc Virtual CD/DVD-ROM offers 200x speed and noiseless CD/DVD access without a physical drive. It supports creating up to 15 virtual drivers. You can run games, software, see movies (VCD, SVCD, DVD), and hear music directly from your hard disk without inserting and swapping CDs and DVDs. MagicDisc allows you to use almost all CD/DVD image without burning them onto CD or DVD in order to easily access your favorite games, music, or software programs. It works like a real CD/DVD-ROM: You can run programs, play games, or listen to music from your virtual CD-ROM. It can compress ISO CUE MDS NRG CCD image; can encrypt ISO CUE MDS NRG CCD image; can make ISO image from CD/DVD; It can mount UDF only CD/DVD image and multi-session MDS/MDF and CCD/IMG image.
Version 2.5.79 enhances Vista compatibility.
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User reviews of MagicDisc 2.5.79
- Average user rating: 3.4 stars out of 140 votes
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: MagicDisc 2.5.79
Cons: well, 3 times i installed it, and 3 times it messed up my computer. i gave it more than a fair chance. when i finish installing it, windows detects what it believes to be new hardware, and mounts it. magicdisk puts its icon in the system tray, and everything appears to be going ok. until you try to do anything. your computer is nearly frozen. explorer is frozen and the first time i installed it i was able to close explorer from the task manager and then start it up again, and was then at least able to access the desktop. this didnt work the second time. the start menu refused to work both times. attempting to restart the computer through the task manager (which stopped responding shortly into the second time) the first time did not work, and windows refused to shut down. after manually powering down and rebooting, you get the windows xp load screen, and then the "windows is starting up" screen, where it stays. i left it going for about 10 minutes when normally it takes literally 2 seconds to load, and still it stayed there. F8 to the rescue, and i booted windows to the last normal working settings. i had installed quite a few apps since the last boot, and there were a few that finished doing what they were doing around the same time magicdisk finished installing, so i figured it was just normal error, so i tried again, only it was worse. with a plan this time, i booted to the last working settings, installed it, manually rebooted ,and ran windows in safemode. it booted normal, and i ran magicdisc and it worked fine, so i ran quickstart, an app to configure what programs load at startup, and deleted magicdisc from the list. windows then booted normally. i tried using the program without it booting on startup, but it told me that it couldnt put an icon in the system tray, and then explorer froze again. basically, im sure there is some way to make this program work, but it simply isnt worth it. just install microsoft virtual machine and install your windows os on that, and use its virtual cd app. it works fine.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: MagicDisc 2.5.79
Cons: Just like everyone else, I installed magicdisc and I immediately had to do a system restore back on my win vista machine. piece of crap driver it trys to install seemed to be part or all of the problem. uninstall of the program wouldnt work. dont install this pond scum.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: MagicDisc 2.5.79
"Instant doom program of doom"
Cons: This is... well.. if your computer has a death wish, download away. If you actually enjoy being able to use your computer without it vomiting horrible error juice all over you, find another program for your cd utility needs as this thing will freeze your computer, break everything you love, and probably kill children in third world countries. Took a solid three hours of blood, sweat and tears (lots of them) to unistall the horrors this program unleashed on an unsuspecting XP operating system.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: MagicDisc 2.5.79
Cons: I'm going to have to re-install XP and hours and hours of software. I plan on sending an invoice for my time to the manufacturer, prolly around $500.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: MagicDisc 2.5.79
Cons: I had MagicDisc on my last computer and it was always reliable and worked fine. I got a new desktop for Christmas and decided to install it and it DESTROYED EVERYTHING. It was impossible to uninstall and took forever to load anything, IF it even loaded anything.
NOT WORTH THE RISK. Just use Daemon Tools.
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