A friend had bought a HP dv7 Pavilion, which came with a licensed Windows 7 and

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A friend had bought a HP dv7 Pavilion, which came with a licensed Windows 7 and its own utility software. It had an option to make a recovery disk which, of course, is quite useful.

Now the problem was that the recovery disk required somewhere around 16GB and which required 4 DVDs. DVD's aren't that portable, are unreliable and a pain to back-up.

So I wanted to a software using which I could emulate a DVD writer and an empty writable DVD so the recovery disk creator would write to.

I tried many different programs, (don't remember the names) but none had this particular feature.

What software should I be using to emulate this?

Explanation / Answer

Virtual CD v10 is quite a good package, with a decent list of features that's not confined to just CD emulation. Virtual CD also allows you to emulate CD/DVD/BD burners, allowing you to burn disks virtually to image files.

You can check out the Trial version of Virtual CD (30 days trial) for your purpose. This can do the job for you, without the need of shelling out any money.

But, if you are willing to buy Virtual CD for US$ 34.95, it will be a nice tool to have in hand. Though its been quite some time since I last used it, it seems to be quite the same powerful tool it was; set at a decent price tag.

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