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title: "Virtual CloneDrive - Elaborate Bytes"
source: "https://www.elby.ch/en/products/vcd.html"
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created: 2026-08-13
description: "Mount ISO files with Virtual CloneDrive and use them like a physical drive. Virtual CloneDrive is freeware and has been downloaded more than 10,000,000 times!"
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#virtual-clonedrive #iso 

## Virtual CloneDrive

![](https://www.elby.ch/img/logo/logo-vcd.svg)

Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD, DVD, or Blu-ray drive, although it only exists virtually. Image files can be "inserted" into the virtual drive from your harddisk or from a network drive by just a double-click, and thus be used like a normal CD, DVD, or Blu-ray. Virtual CloneDrive supports up to 15 virtual drives at the same time - no matter if the image file contains audio, video or just simple data. Virtual CloneDrive is fully integrated in Windows Explorer context menus and on top of all it is free!

![](https://www.elby.ch/img/screenshot/screenshot-vcd-1.en.png)

#### System Requirements

- A Windows compatible PC with minimum 500 MHz Processor and 256 MB RAM
- Windows XP/XP64/VISTA/VISTA64/Win7/Win7-64/Win8/Win8-64/Win10/Win11
- Administrator rights are required to install.

#### Features

- Mounts images as virtual drive
- Supports all common image formats such as ISO, BIN, IMG, UDF, DVD, and CCD
- Emulation of CD, DVD, and Blu-ray media
- Supports up to 15 virtual drives at the same time
- History of recently mounted images
- Automount last image
- Unmount image with eject button
- Seamless integration in Windows Explorer context menu
- Easy to use - just double-click an image file to mount as a drive
- Virtual CloneDrive is freeware, you may use it at no cost