Virtual Disk and Dekart Private Disk Light Software for Windows

CallbackDisk
$1080 - EldoS Corporation

With CallbackDisk you can create and manage virtual disk devices within your application and expose these disks to Windows as if they were real disk devices. The disks become visible to all process in the system.

Virtual disk is the one that has a file system on it, but is not physically located on a disk partition. The storage can be actually located in a file residing on a local disk, or in applicaiton resources, or in memory, or somewhere at a remote location. The important part is that this disk is visible to the user (and to other applications) as if it were a formatted hard disk partition.

CallbackDisk provides a kernel-mode driver, which calls your application when it needs to perform reading or writing to the disk. And your application can store the actual disk data anywhere it needs: in memory, over the net etc.

Virtual disk can be needed, when
* the application stores some data internally (in resources or in supplementary files) and it needs to use some library, which can only work with file located within a system-wide file system. The examples include DirectX libraries, Flash player, many third-party components.
* the application must hide presence of the disk from the user, while keeping it (the disk) available for some applications
* and more ...

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MakeVM
$19.95 - SysDevSoftware Ltd.

Create your own/edit existing Virtual Machine to play with VMWare (R) Player or other compatible virtualization software.

Manage your virtual hardware settings, set new virtual hardware, including new virtual disks and attach hard disks to VMWare virtual machine. With MakeVM you may even attach your USB flash drives as physical disks for virtual machine that is not works with VMWare virtual machine management software.

With MakeVM you can:
* Clone your Real OS to VMWare, VirtualPC or Parallels Workstation;
* Clone your Virtual OS between virtualization software of different Vendors;

With its advanced 'Clone...' feature you may:
* Clone your physical hard drive (including USB drives) to VMWare .VMDK, Virtual PC .VHD or Parallels Workstation .HDD to make it to be a virtual disk for Virtual Machine; this feature includes real Operation System transfer to virtual machine (see notice below);
* MS Virtual PC, VMWare and Parallels Workstation sparse disks conversion from one format to another (their flat disk are compatible);
FLAT disks to variable size (extensible, sparse) conversion (supports RAW, VMWare, VirtualPC, Parallels flat disks as source);
* Varible size VMWare, VirtualPC and Parallels Workstation disks compacting: if you have many files deleted, MakeVM allows you to clone your sparse disk to new one and skip unallocated disk space to make it much smaller; this feature works with FAT32 and NTFS file systems; This feature involves file system-level optimization, so may work much better than 'standard' compacting tools
* Combine all features above into single 'conversion' process.
* With 'Deirect clone...' feature you may just convert one sparse disk format to another with no processing (VHD/VMDK/HDD to VHD/VMDK/HDD).
* 'Deirect clone...' feature also supports VMWare sparse disk sets (created with 'Split disk...' VMWare feature) to convert to spanned sparse VMWare disk or Parallels Workstation virtual disk.

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Dekart Private Disk Light
$0 - Dekart

Free fast AES 128-bit disk encryption program. Private Disk Light allows you to create a secure space for all your work, exchange encrypted data with others, and feel sure that your information is safe from external and internal manipulation.

Private Disk Light creates one or more secure virtual disks on your hard drive. Information stored in this secure area is automatically encrypted and may only be decrypted by entering the password. Without the password, the information from a secure disk cannot be accessed and decrypted.

Private Disk Light employs an AES standard encryption algorithm. This technology ensures a high level of encryption, which does not hinder the computer`s performance in any way. Important note: Dekart Private Disk Light contains No spyware, No adware, No viruses and it's freeware.

Private Disk Light is very easy to use and takes only a few minutes to install. Data encryption is an effortless process, requiring only the copying of files into the designated secure drive. Private Disk Light keeps information safe and secure, but currently its development has been stopped. The product offering better functionality than Dekart Private Disk Light, is Dekart Private Disk, a highly configurable advanced disk enryption software, offering a host of important features and options.

Try Private Disk Light, it's yours to use for free. And if you want a more full-featured product, look into Private Disk.

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M-Files PRO Document Management Software
$199 - Motive Systems

M-Files® helps you organize, find and track the documents of your business in a centralized manner. Users see the document vault as a virtual disk drive on their computers!

FAMILIAR INTERFACE:

* Integrates with Windows Explorer - instantly familiar to everyone.

* The document repository appears as a virtual disk drive.

* Direct opening and saving from all Windows applications.

* Supports all file types, including Office, PDF and CAD files.

CONTROLLED EDITING:

* Check-out and check-in operations eliminate the problems of simultaneous changes.

* Preserves old versions automatically.

* Records a change log with user names, timestamps and comments.

EVERYDAY TIME SAVING:

* Find documents instantly by typing words in the search box.

* High-performance index of file contents and metadata.

* Dynamically view documents in any hierarchical structure you choose.

* Make the same document appear in multiple folders without creating copies.

REGARDLESS OF LOCATION:

* Remarkably fast over remote connections.

* Traveling users can view, create and edit documents in offline mode, with automatic synchronization.

* Web client for non-Windows users.

SECURITY:

* Control data visibility; hide sensitive documents.

* Compatible with Active Directory.

* Scheduled backups of all data.

COLLABORATION POSSIBILITIES:

* E-mail notifications of new and modified documents.

* Basic and advanced workflow capabilities.

CUSTOMIZABLE METADATA:

* The most advanced metadata structure capabilities, including multi-select lists and filtered fields.

* Graphical interface for all metadata customization, no programming required.

* Relationships between documents; collections; templates.

CONNECTING TO OTHER SYSTEMS:

* Define links to external databases, e.g. customer and project listings.

* Import and link files from existing network shares.

* Feed paper documents from scanners.

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M-Files SBE Document Management Software
$49 - Motive Systems

M-Files® Small Business Edition helps you manage your personal and business documents. Users see the document vault as a virtual disk drive on their computers!

FAMILIAR INTERFACE:

* Integrates with Windows Explorer - instantly familiar to everyone.

* The document repository appears as a virtual disk drive.

* Direct opening and saving from all Windows applications.

* Supports all file types, including Office, PDF and CAD files.

CONTROLLED EDITING:

* Check-out and check-in operations eliminate the problems of simultaneous changes.

* Preserves old versions automatically.

* Records a change log with user names, timestamps and comments.

EVERYDAY TIME SAVING:

* Find documents instantly by typing words in the search box.

* High-performance index of file contents and metadata.

* Dynamically view documents in any hierarchical structure you choose.

* Make the same document appear in multiple folders without creating copies.

REGARDLESS OF LOCATION:

* Remarkably fast over remote connections.

* Traveling users can view, create and edit documents in offline mode, with automatic synchronization.

* Web client for non-Windows users.

SECURITY:

* Control data visibility; hide sensitive documents.

* Compatible with Active Directory.

* Scheduled backups of all data.

COLLABORATION POSSIBILITIES:

* E-mail notifications of new and modified documents.

* Basic and advanced workflow capabilities.

CUSTOMIZABLE METADATA:

* The most advanced metadata structure capabilities.

* Graphical interface for all metadata customization, no programming required.

* Relationships between documents; collections; templates.

CONNECTING TO OTHER SYSTEMS:

* Define links to external databases, e.g. customer and project listings.

* Import and link files from existing network shares.

* Feed paper documents from scanners.

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Paragon Encrypted Disk Personal
$29.95 - Paragon Software Group

Protect private and sensitive data from potential unauthorized access. No matter what is your particular needs, protecting your data on computer, sharing one computer between several persons or secured transfer of data to friend, co-worker or boss, Encrypted Disk will help you to fulfill your tasks. You can encrypt virtual disk image with one of modern and reliable encryption algorithms - Encrypted Disk supports Blowfish (448-bit key) and Triple DES (192-bit key). Encrypted disk can be mounted with any spare drive letter in the system, then every application and system process will have transparent access to the contents of encrypted virtual disk. You don't have to remember long and complex passwords, you can have key-file on a diskette or another removable media and use it to access encrypted disk image. Paragon Encrypted Disk is a system for those who are anxious for protection of their personal or professional information. The system allows to create virtual encrypted disks with all information on them encrypted and decrypted on the fly. The encrypted disk contents is stored as a binary file called the encrypted disk image. This file can reside on a hard drive, on a network drive, on removable media such as CD-ROM, JAZ, Zip, etc. Once an encrypted disk image is created it can be mounted as a virtual drive anytime and anywhere later. The disk image can be mounted only if a user enter an appropriate password or supply appropriate Key. Strong encryption algorithms used in the system guarantee that nobody can access your private information.

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