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Mounty: Mount Disc Images via App-Indicator Menu Applet In Ubuntu Linux

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We previously covered an Ubuntu disc mounting tool known as Furius ISO Mount, which mounts virtual discs and provides options for performing checksums to check the integrity of disc images. While Furius ISO Mount is quite an advanced disc mounting tool, one can always benefit from a minimalist disc mounting utility that works from the app-indicator menu. Mounty is one such disc mounting utility, which enables sharing virtual disc images. After installation, Mounty sits in the system tray and provides easy disc mounting options via the app-indicator menu. Read More

Mount Virtual Disc Images In Ubuntu Linux With Furius ISO Mount

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Mounting disc images to a virtual drive can help view the data without having to burn the image to disc. Most users prefer disc images in standard formats (such as ISO format) to avoid straining the lens of their optical drive, as running a game, movie, etc  from a CD/DVD drive reduces its life. But, it is not just disc image formats that need to be mounted for viewing their content, most Linux backup tools use the IMG format for creating system backups. Such a format can also be mounted using a disc image mounting application to read the data in image file without having to restore the complete backup. Read More

ISO Toolkit For Windows: Create, Copy, Extract & Convert Disc Images

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A while back, we reviewed WBICreator that allows creating bootable ISO images for Windows XP, Vista and 7. This time, we have a more comprehensive disc image manipulation utility, known as ISO Toolkit for Windows. It is a portable application that allows you to create and copy ISO images from a CD/DVD. Furthermore, it enables converting and extracting content from disc images of popular formats, such as ISO, CUE and NRG. This means that you can not only create bootable images of operating system installer discs, but also create, convert and extract files from disc images of various formats. Read More

MDF to ISO Lets You Convert Files From MDF To ISO Format With Ease

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MDF (Mirror Disc File) is a disc image format like ISO, Bin, Nrg etc, used by several virtual drive software. It is basically CD/DVD data saved as a disc image, using a disc authoring tool like Alcohol 120%. Disc image files created with such formats can be mounted with applications such as MagicDisc, PowerISO, DeamonTools and the like. MDF file data is stored in two separate files, with the main data being in the .MDF file, while the header and track information is stored in a corresponding .MDS file. Read More

Create And Mount Encrypted Virtual Disks With FreeVDF

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FreeVDF is a virtual disk management application which can create new encrypted disks and mount CD/DVD drives images. Encryption can be performed using the algorithm SSE1, and the disk can be created as password protected. This makes FreeVDF more than a virtual disk mounting application, as one can created encrypted virtual drives on a computer and password protected the data inside these drives to add two layers of security. Read More

7Burn Is Designed For Windows 7 Users To Burn Blu-Ray Disc

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Earlier, we wrote about Tiny Burner, which is a portable disc burning software. Just today, we came across 7Burn (available as both portable and installer package), which is a more feature rich application. According to the developer, it is designed to work properly under Windows 7 through IMAPIv2, that enables to use any support for writing discs, including Blu-Ray. Read More

Integrate CD/DVD Burning In Windows Explorer With Explore&Burn

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So you want to burn data or an ISO/IMG disc image quickly without having to run some 3rd party CD/DVD burner. Everyone knows the default ‘Burn To Disk’ right-click context menu feature in Windows is not very good at burning data and cannot even burn a disc image, so what’s left? Expore&Burn is a free app for Windows that  integrates into the Windows Explorer context menu. It can burn any type of data including an ISO/IMG disc image in just two clicks. Just insert a writable CD/DVD, select the data or an ISO/IMG disc image, right-click it and select Burn To Disk or Burn Disk Image, depending on what type of data you have selected. Read More