Deamon Tools is best. For ISO creator, I use magiciso.

does anyone find that after using alcohol, your cd drive names don't refresh?.. (when using real discs)

is there a fix for this? (besides restarting pc!)

4- Can put info and comments on each CD like for instance e.g Serial Number

No, and the reason being that Alcohol's main purpose is to image CD/DVD games so you can play them as if they were the original.  Modifying the disc to add files and such to them defeats the purpose because the disc could no longer be authenticated.

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this could be done by alcohol if they stored the 'comments' in a text file on that machine (and not altering the disc), if you're on the support team, maybe you can suggest this?

I always heard of Alcohal, dumb name, good product.

Never heard of Daemon Tools.

Used Alcohol for a very long time until I switched to Daemon Tools. Both are good.

Daemon Tools for me. Simple, small, and does exactly what you need. I'll stick with Nero for burning.

My vote goes to daemon tools.

Someone I know used Paragon, and was completely satisfied. I've never used any of them myself.

daemon tools with 'fastmount' plugin -for right click mounting

Alcohol 120% for me

used deamon tools friends turned me onto that but wanted to backup games and alcohol 120% was my answered prayer

i like how you can have it not show up in the task bar but still have it emulating, and i like how it remembers what iso's you used last so all you have to do is right click the emulated drive in my computer and click the iso you wanna use no having to browse files cause im lazy

does anyone find that after using alcohol, your cd drive names don't refresh?.. (when using real discs)

is there a fix for this? (besides restarting pc!)

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Yes, this is because alcohol setup disables autorun.

Enable it back again, and it will be fine.

Also, one more tip you could use, is to add your alcohol or Nero ImageDrive in the OpenWith right-click option. That way, Right-click your .BIN or .ISO or .NRG, and openwith <app> and instantly that image is seen mounted in your virtual drive!

I use Alcohol. I just prefer professional software to freak-software.

By the way, who the hell has autorun enabled?! My godness that feature sucks, really.

My godness that feature sucks, really.

Daemon Tools Rocks Never had an Issue with it.

what type of images can Deamon handle?