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ISO Extractor For Android: Browse & Extract Content From ISO Images

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Although there are quite a few apps available in the Android Market that let you browse and extract content from within compressed archives, not many allow you to do the same for ISO files (virtual disk images). Enter ISO Extractor – a free Android app that, as its name suggests, enables you to explore raw ISO image files right on your device. The app sports a built-in file explorer that allows selecting files and folders in batch. The copying mechanism of ISO Extractor is not just effective but ultra-swift too, allowing you to easily extract files from the ISO images on to your device's local storage/SD card. 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

gBurner Virtual Drive: Mount & Read Up To 16 Virtual Disks Simultaneously

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Backing up your original CDs and DVDs into ISO form has always been a good idea. You wouldn’t want to buy a disk by paying your hard earned cash, only to get it scratched latter on. If you’re one of those wise folks who keep keep there optical disks as ISO files, or you just grabbed a disk image off the internet and need to mount it as virtual drive, then gBurner Virtual Drive is all you need. This ultra light weight application is designed to lets you create and manage virtual drives on your PC. As most of us only have a single physical optical drive on our PC, this application can be especially useful for users who work with ISO images and need to mount multiple virtual disks at the time. It allows you to access your games, movies and music from your virtual CD/DVD-ROM without burning them on to a physical optical disk. While most of the applications of such nature only allow you to mount images in ISO file format, gBurner Virtual Drive on the other hand supports a large number of CD/DVD image file formats, including ISO, GBI, DAA, ISZ, IMG, DMA, BIN, MDF, VCD etc. You'd be pleased to know that you can create and mount a total of 16 virtual drives at a time, allowing you faster access than using a normal CD/DVD-ROM. Keep reading past the jump for more usage and other details. 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

VSO Media Player: Play Media From ISO Files With Hardware Support

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When it comes to media players, the market is so saturated that only a handful brand names such as VLC Media Player, GOM Player, Classic Player, MPlayer and native Windows Media Player are considered as the market leaders, and others barely stand a chance of attracting users. This, however, does not necessarily mean that other media players do not have what it takes to be the best. Read More

WBICreator: Create Bootable Windows ISO Disc Image From Setup Folder

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We often save a backup copy of our Windows installer disc on a local or external drive, in case the original disc is damaged, lost or unavailable. Burning these files directly to a disc does not create a bootable CD/DVD for installing Windows. Many people do not know how to create a bootable disc and some software which allow doing so easily are paid (such as Nero). For long there has been a freeware used by system administrators to create bootable disc images for Windows Vista and XP, known as nLite, but it does not support Windows 7. Read More

How To Convert Disk Images From IMG To ISO Format

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IMG is a disk image format like ISO, Bin, Nrg, etc used by many virtual drive software. Disk image files created with such formats can be mounted as virtual disks with the help of disk mounting applications such as MagicDisc, Alcohol, DaemonTools and the like. Over a period of time, the ISO format has become more popular than other disk image formats. For this reason, one is likely to find support for ISO images in numerous applications as compared to other similar formats. Moreover, many users have become more acquainted with the ISO format and prefer it over other formats. For example, most CD/DVD images are released as ISO images such as operating system versions (e.g. Linux distributions), files uploaded to torrent websites, etc. If you would like to convert an IMG file to an ISO image, then IMG to ISO application might just be what you are looking for. It is a simple tool which converts an IMG file to the ISO file format. The best part is that it not only converts an IMG file to an ISO file format but also retains the quality of the disk image. The converted ISO file that is created using this program can conform to the standard ISO-9660 format. 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

Mount Disk Images To RAM For High Speed Disk Access With OSFMount

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Many free disc mounting programs provide multitude of options for mounting and managing disc images. Many of these programs have quite similar features and it is not often that one comes across a software that can take the edge from its competitors by providing a unique feature. OSFMount is an application that allows mounting disc images on not just virtual drives but also into the RAM. This means that you can get faster access to disc images and improve the overall performance of the mounted images. This may include disc images of operating systems (for virtual machines) or games, that can be run more efficiently by mounting them in the RAM rather than on local disks. Creating RAM disks can be particularly handy for IT professional such as the ones who may require running database applications. OSFMount supports a huge array of extensions, including, ISO, BIN, IMG, DD, 00N, NRG (Nero Burning ROM image), SDI (System Deployment Image), AFF / AFM / AFD (Advanced Forensic Format images) and VMDK (VMWare image). Read More

ISO Workshop Is All-In-One Tool To Extract, Backup, Convert, And Burn ISO Files

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ISO is the most widely used disc image format for creating copies of optical discs, including, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. The main advantage of ISO over other types of image formats is that it is not stored in a file container, and secondly, anyone can create exact same copy of optical disc in ISO format keeping all the data distributed in sectors in original form. ISO Workshop is an all-in-one utility to Extract files from ISO disc images, Backup data on optical disc into ISO and CUE image format, Convert ISO into various image formats, and finally Burn ISO image to CD, DVD, and Blu-Ray disc. If you’re using more than 2 applications to perform any of these operations with ISO files, ISO Workshop is an app worth trying. Read More

Create Multiboot Windows And Linux USB Drive With WinSetupFromUSB

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There are many tools available out there which allows user to create bootable USB drives, but what if you need to create a multiboot USB drive which can keep more than one bootable installation packages, lets say,  Windows XP, Windows Vista, Ubuntu and Windows 7? WinSetupFromUSB can create a multiboot setup, allowing user to keep a range of bootable ISO files on single drive. The application comes with support for OS including,  Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Parted Magic, and Ubuntu,G4D. Just specify the OS installation directory to create multiboot USB drive with a single click. Read More

AcetoneISO – Create, Mount, Convert, Encrypt/Decrypt And Burn CD/DVD Images In Ubuntu

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AcetoneISO is a freeware for Linux to create, mount, rip, extract, convert, burn, encrypt and decrypt (WinRAR protected) DVD and CD images. It supports MDF, NRG, BIN, NRG and ISO formats. Acetone ISO provides the option to create disk image from both files and folders. Other than being an excellent disk image management tool, it contains unique features which include the option to download videos from YouTube and Metcafe. Read More

Extract And Convert DMG File To ISO, BIN, And IMG With DMGExtractor

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DMGExtractor is a Java-based application for extracting and converting Mac OS X dmg (Disk Image) file content into widely used image file formats, such as, BIN, ISO, and IMG. According to the developer, it is capable of manipulating CUDIFDiskImage based disk images while all other AES-128 encrypted disk images can also be handled. The application is not only an attempt to port functions of dmgtoiso utility but adds a set features which one might require while extracting or converting dmg contained content. Unlike dmg2iso, it comes with simple GUI-based interface to quickly extract files. Read More

Write Single Image File To Multiple USB Flash Drives With ImageUSB

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Just a few days back we reviewed multi-boot USB/ISO image creator called XBoot, which allows anyone to create a package of multiple ISO files and then write it to USB in one go. Today we came across ImageUSB, which will be utterly useful for users who write images to USBs on regular basis. ImageUSB is developed on a different concept than XBoot but keeping the very same users in mind. It enables you to write an image file to multiple USB flash drives simultaneously, so you wont need to wait until writing process on one USB gets completed, just plug-in USBs to write data on all of them at once. Read More

Insert Multiple ISO Images Into Single Multiboot USB / ISO File With XBoot

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XBoot is a powerful application which is designed on the idea of creating multi-boot ISO/USB from a set of ISO image files. Until the release of XBoot, there was apparently no easy way to collect multiple ISO files into one package. The application also comes with number of supported websites where you can download the ISO file which can be used to create bootable USB or a collective ISO image to burn on optical disk.  Since many software application developers roll out their utilities in ISO image format, it can be utterly useful to make an amalgamate of all essential ISO images. Furthermore, checksum calculator is also deployed within the application to verify the original release of inserted ISO image. Read More

ISOBuddy: Convert & Burn Disc Images (DMG,NRG, IMG, BIN, & more)

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ISOBuddy is free utility which lets you convert multiple disk images into ISO image format and then burn it. The demand behind opting this application is primarily comes from different types of users, who frequently needs to create and burn images to optical discs. The shining part is that, you can convert Apple’s disk image: DMG format, Nero’s NRG and a lot of other eminent file formats into ISO image file. Read More

Mount Disk Images With VirtualCloneDrive

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Virtual Drive phenomenon was popped-out specifically to get rid of hassling with inserting CD/DVD over & over again for using the application. Though Virtual Drive applications are abundant, one of the easiest we found out is VirtualCloneDrive. It is small free utility which enables you to mount images (ISO, BIN, etc) quickly. Read More

How To Burn ISO Images In Windows 7

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As you all know that ISO image is replica of an entire CD or DVD and the entire contents of a disc can be perfectly represented in a single ISO file. What you do when you download the ISO image file? You burn it to the CD or DVD, right?  You will need to install and use a burning software tool in order to burn ISO file, but not anymore.  Windows 7  has a build-in Disc Image Burner tool that lets you burn images instantly. Read More