Some programs, however, attempt to discover such disk image emulators and will refuse to work if one is found.

Other programs exist that attempt to hide the presence of disk image emulators from such protected software.

Virtual CloneDrive is a disk image emulator.

Alcohol 120% is an optical disc authoring program and disk image emulator created by Alcohol Soft.

This image can then be mounted with a disk image emulator such as Daemon Tools to trick the user's computer into believing the disk image is the software's physical CD-ROM and it is in the drive.

The files on a live CD ISO image can be accessed in Microsoft Windows with a disk image emulator such as Daemon Tools, or in Unix variants by mounting a loop device.

It cannot, however, convert an ISO image directly into a directory of DVD files, but this is possible to do by first mounting the image into a virtual drive using a disk image emulator, such as Virtual CloneDrive.