Phantom CD is a FREE virtual CD/DVD drive.

Use disc images for your CD and DVD backup. Replace
your physical discs to avoid wear and tear on your
optical drive, and to avoid disc problems resulted
from heat, scratch, and dirt. Enjoy reading speed up
to 200 times faster than a physical disc, allowing
your application and games to start and run faster.

CD-R/RW, and DVD+-R/RW discs have a life span of two
to five years. Optical discs commonly used for burning
have a recording surface consisting of a layer of dye
that can be damaged by heat. The degradation process
can result in the data "shifting" on the surface and
thus becoming unreadable to the laser beam.

To avoid burning your CD's every few years, copy the
CD and DVD's to ISO or BIN/CUE disc images to your
hard drive.

Hard drives have their limitations too. However, when

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