Virtual drive

A virtual drive is a term used with respect to computers when a drive is emulated in some fashion. The drive being emulated could be a hard drive, floppy drive, CD/DVD or a network share among others.

A virtual hard drive can be created from RAM for fast read/write access. See: RAM disk. As well, there is software that makes one's Gmail account act as a virtual external drive.

Virtual DVD or CD drives are often mounted disk images via disk image emulator software. This allows one to read a CD or DVD from the disk image that is usually located on the hard drive, rather than from the disc drive. This allows users to run software requiring the CD or DVD without having to swap discs, or even possess it.

See also

• Disk image emulator
• GMail Drive

External links

• WebDrive virtual drive connection to SFTP, FTP and WebDAV servers
• Roam Drive
• SFTP Drive - Map your remote linux server as a Windows network drive over SFTP.
• OnlineDrive: file management, viewer and sharing application with data center levels of file protection
• Vombato mail drive - It is software that creates a virtual drive on any of your POP3 email account anywhere on the web