5 best FREE CD/DVD Burning and Image/Virtual CD/DVD Drive managing Alternatives

1. AVS Disc Creator: Best CD/DVD writing utility:

This is our first recommendation. With this piece of cool software you can do almost anything you can with a commercial Burning software…

Features:

• Burn data with Multi-session;
• Quickly make a 1:1 copy by pressing only 2 buttons!
• Make a DVD disc for your home DVD player with support of DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW, DVD-RAM, Double/Dual Layer DVD. Also supports Blu-Ray data discs.
• Create a boot CD/DVD disc for emergency.
• Make ISO image and burn to as many CD/DVD you want in no time!
• Create your own Disc cover with the Integrated Disc Cover Editor.
• Supports Windows XP, 2003, Vista (no Mac OS/Linux support)

That was only a few features we have included. It supports a wide range of IDE, SATA, SCSI, USB, and Firewire drives. Also it works with other Image File Formats like Nero Burning-ROM or Alcohol 120%.

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2. DAEMON Tools Lite – best Virtual Device management software:

Have a Disc Image file and want to see its contents without actually writing it to a CD/DVD? If so, then this tool is perfect for you! It allows us to Virtually mount a CD/DVD image file and use it just like a general CD/DVD from a “Virtual Device” (Means it emulates our PC to create another DVD drive which actually does not exists, but appears as a Physical drive on which we can mount our image files). As said by Demon tools developers

DAEMON Tools is an advanced application for Microsoft Windows which provides one of the best optical media emulation in the industry. DAEMON Tools enables you to use your CD/DVD images as if they were already burned to CD/DVD

Features:

• Protected images creation: Password field on Disc Imaging dialog;
• Windows 7 beta supporting (SPTD 1.58);
• Compressed images creation: Compress option on Disc Imaging dialog;

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2. CDBurnerXP- another powerful Burning Utility:

Although AVS Disc creator is the best one we recommend, CDBurnerXP is also good and we suggest try both of them and figure out which one suits you best! Below are given some of the features:

Features:

• Burn any Data on CD-R/CD-RW/DVD+R/DVD-R/DVD+RW/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM/BD/HD-DVD, including double layer mediums
• Import previous (ISO 9660) sessions and edit existing file structure on CD/DVD
• Burn on-the-fly and with buffer-underrun protections
• Verify written Data automatically after burning process
• Create Audio CDs from mp3, wav, ogg, flac and wma files.
• Burn, Create and manage your own ISO files.
• supports most IDE, USB, Firewire and SCSI drives
• Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista/Windows 7

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3. Infra Recorder- Good Burning utility:

This is also good and worth a try. Following are some key features of this freebie:

Features:

• Create custom data, audio and mixed-mode projects and record them to physical discs as well as disc images.
• Supports recording to dual-layer DVDs.
• Blank (erase) rewritable discs using four different methods.
• Record disc images (ISO and BIN/CUE).
• Fixate discs (write lead-out information to prevent further data from being added to the disc).
• Scan the SCSI/IDE bus for devices and collect information about their capabilities.
• Create disc copies, on the fly and using a temporary disc image.
• Import session data from multi-session discs and add more sessions to them.
• Display disc information.
• Save audio and data tracks to files (.wav, .wma, .ogg, .mp3 and .iso).

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4. ImgBurn – lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application

Only 2 MB in size and gives considerable amount of feature we need. This can serve good for your NoteBook PCs.

Features:

• ImgBurn supports a wide range of image file formats – including BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI
• It can burn Audio CD’s from any file type supported via DirectShow / ACM – including AAC, APE, FLAC, M4A, MP3, MP4, MPC, OGG, PCM, WAV, WMA and WV
• You can use it to build DVD Video discs (from a VIDEO_TS folder), HD DVD Video discs (from a HVDVD_TS folder) and Blu-ray Video discs (from a BDAV / BDMV folder) with ease
• It supports Unicode folder/file names, so you shouldn’t run in to any problems if you’re using an international character set.
• ImgBurn supports all the Windows OS’s – Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 and 7 (including all the 64-bit versions). If you use Wine, it should also run on Linux and other x86-based Unixes.

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5. Burn4Free: Free DVD copy, CD Copy, DVD burner

Features:

• Burn4Free burn data (CD and DVD) and audio from different files types (WAV, FLAC, WavPack, WMA, M3U (mp3 winamp compilation) , MP3, MP2, MP1 OGG and CDA (normal cd audio tracks))
• Low cost burning : you can burn and dvd copy– backup data – cd with only 2 clicks
• CD-R/CD-RW/DVD-R/DVD+R/DVD-RW/DVD+RW/DVD-RAM drives (SCSI – IDE/EIDE – USB) are supported
• Multi languages: many languages are available, choose your favorite
• Print Compilation, select layout, colors and items to print
• 4 way to burn your CD/DVD: you can choose the way you prefer to burn a CD/DVD (fly window, right click from explorer, internal add window, drag & drop. Also you can burn and save .ISO files 
• DVD dual layer support (check Compatibility menu)
• Burn MP3 compilation
• Easy to use ex: you can store all your movies
• 1900 + COMPATIBLE RECORDERS

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That was our complete list of Free yet Powerful Burning Software list. All of them are worth a download and try! If you have tried them out, then don’t forget to share your experience with us! Also if you have been using any other freeware alternative then do let us know through your comments!