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The MacApper weblog has a simple, beginner's tutorial for creating and using virtual disks on your Mac using the built-in Disk Utility.

As MacApper explains, Disk Utility allows you to back up a CD or DVD to your hard drive in the form of a disk image, which you can then mount and use just like you had inserted the optical media from whence it came. Aside from the handy I-don't-need-a-disk freedom the disk image gives you, it also means you can have more than one disk image mounted at a time if you so please. As a former Windows-only chap, it's so great to see how Apple actually bundles this sort of useful tool in the OS without the need for a 3rd party software. If the image you want to create contains sensitive data, you might want to consider encrypting it.

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