Comparison of disc image software
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Notable software applications that can access or manipulate disk image files are as follows, comparing their disk image handling features.
Name | Creates[a] | Modifies?[b] | Mounts?[c] | Writes/ | Extracts?[e] | Input format[f] | Output format[g] | OS | License |
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7-Zip | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | CramFS, DMG, FAT, HFS, MBR, NTFS, ISO, SquashFS, UDF, VHD, WIM[1] | WIM | Windows, Linux, Classic Mac OS | Free software (GPL) |
AcetoneISO | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | CD, DVD, ISO, BIN, MDF+MDS, IMG, NRG, CUE, TOC, DMG | CD, DVD, ISO, BIN | Linux | Free software (GPL) |
Acronis True Image | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | TIB, VHD | TIB, VHD | Windows | Shareware |
Alcohol 120% | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | ISO, B5T, B6T, BWT, CCD, CDI, BIN+CUE, MDF+MDS, NRG, ISZ | MDF+MDS, ISO | Windows | Trialware |
Alcohol 52% FE | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | ISO | — | Windows | Adware |
AnyDVD HD | Yes | No | No | No | No | — | ISO | Windows | Shareware |
Archive Manager | No | No | No | No | Yes | ISO | — | Unix-like | Free software (GPL) |
Ashampoo Burning Studio | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | ISO, BIN+CUE | ISO, BIN+CUE | Windows | Shareware[h] |
BlindWrite | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | B5T, B6T, BWA, BWI, BWS, BWT, BIN+CUE, ISO, MDF+MDS | B5T, B6T, BWA, BWI, BWS, BWT, BIN+CUE, ISO, MDF+MDS | Windows | Shareware |
Brasero | No | No | No | Yes | No | ISO, CUE | CD, DVD | Linux | Free software (GPL) |
Burnatonce | No | No | No | Yes | No | ISO, CUE, TOC | — | Windows | Freeware |
CDBurnerXP | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | ISO, MDF+MDS, NRG, BIN+CUE | ISO, MDF+MDS | Windows | Freeware |
CDemu | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | CSO, ECM, GBI, GZ, XZ, ISZ, DMG, ISO, UDF, NRG, CDI, CCD, SUB, IMG, BIN+CUE, TOC, B5T+B5I, B6T+B6I, MDF+MDS, MDX, CIF, C2D, DAA | ISO, TOC | Linux | Free software (GPL v2) |
genisoimage | Yes | No | No | No | No | — | ? | Linux, Unix | Free software (GPL) |
isoinfo | No | No | No | No | Yes | ? | — | Unix, Linux, Amiga Windows, macOS | Free software (GPL) |
mkisofs | Yes | No | No | No | No | — | ? | Unix, Linux, Amiga Windows, macOS | Free software (GPL) |
CDRoller | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ISO | ISO | Windows | Shareware |
CDRWIN | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ISO, BIN+CUE, Audio File Types+CUE, ISO+CUE, Audio File Types+ISO+CUE, ISO+Audio File Types+CUE | BIN+CUE | Windows | Shareware |
CloneCD | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | — | ISO, UFD, IMG | Windows | Shareware |
CloneDVD | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ISO | ISO | Windows | Shareware |
Daemon Tools | Yes | All editions except Lite | Yes | Yes[i] | All editions except Lite | BIN+CUE, B5T, B6T, BWT, CCD, CDI, ISO, ISZ, MDF+MDS, MDX, NRG, VHD, VMDK and TrueCrypt[j] | ISO, MDF+MDS, MDX – VHD and TrueCrypt in Ultra edition | Windows | Freemium[k] |
DeepBurner | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | ISO | ISO | Windows | Freemium |
Disco | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | CDR, ISO, DMG | CDR, ISO, DMG | macOS | Freeware |
DiscJuggler | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | CDI, ISO | CDI | Windows | Shareware |
Disk Utility | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | DMG, ISO | DMG, ISO | macOS | Part of macOS |
DiskImageMounter | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | DMG, ISO | DMG, ISO | macOS | Part of macOS |
DVD Shrink | Yes | No | No | No | Yes[l] | ISO, NRG, IMG, MDF+MDS | ISO | Windows | Freeware |
Furius ISO Mount | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | ISO, IMG, BIN, MDF+MDS, NRG | ? | Linux | Free software (GPL) |
Image for Windows | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | TBI, VHD, VMDK | TBI, VHD, VMDK | Windows | Shareware |
ImgBurn | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | APE+CUE, BIN+CUE, CDI, CDR, DI, FLAC+CUE, GCM, GI, IBQ, IMG, ISO, LST, MDF+MDS, NRG, PDI, UDI, WV | ISO, IMG, BIN+CUE | Windows | Freeware |
InfraRecorder | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | ISO | ISO | Windows | Free software (GPL) |
ISO Recorder | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | ISO | ISO | Windows | Free software (BSD license) |
IsoBuster | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | DAO, TAO, ISO, BIN, IMG, CCD, CIF, FCD, NRG, GCD, P01, 2D, CUE, CDI, CD, GI, PXI, MDS, MDF, VC4, 000, B5T, B5I, B6T, B6I, DMG, HFV, DC42, IBP, IBQ, IBDAT, IBADR, NCD, FLP, E01, Ex01, S01, RMG, VMDK, UDF, DD, VHD, VHDX, VDI, WBFS, XISO, XBX, ST, GDI, DCM, VMU, DDF, GME, MCD, MCI, MCR, MEM, PS, PSM, SAVERAM, SRM, VCD, VGS, VM1, VMP, APA, DAT, PS2, VM2, VMC, RAW, DSK, IMAGE, IMA, ADF, HDF, N64, MPG, GCP, CSO, WBI, ZSO, DAX, JSO, IMGC, ISO.GZ, IMG.GZ, ISZ, 1Kn, 2Kn, 4Kn, 8Kn, 16Kn, 32Kn, 64Kn, 512e, 512, 128, 256, 2056, 2324, 2332, 2336, 2352, 2368, 2448[7][8][9] | ISO, TAO, BIN, CUE, IBADR+IBDAT, DSK, 1KN, 2KN, 4KN, 8KN, 16KN, 32KN, 64KN, IBR, IBP and IBQ[9] | Windows | Shareware |
K3b | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ISO | — | Unix-like | Free software (GPL) |
libguestfs | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | raw, qcow2, VMDK, VHD | raw, qcow2, VMDK, VHD | Linux | Free software (LGPL) |
Loop device[10] | No | No | Yes | No | No | Raw image | — | Linux, FreeBSD | Free software |
MagicISO | Yes | Yes | With MagicDisc | Yes | Yes | Both MagicISO and MagicDisc: ISO, BIN+CUE, IMA, IMG, CIF, NRG, IMG+CCD, MDF+MDS, VCD, VaporCD, P01, MD1, XA, VC4/000, VDI, C2D, BWI+BWT, CDI, TAO/DAO, PDI.[11][12] MagicISO only: DMG, FLP, DSK, BFI, BIF, WBT[11] | ISO, BIN+CUE, UIF, NRG, DMG[13] | Windows | Shareware[m][14] |
mount | No | No | Yes | No | No | ISO | — | Linux | Free software (GPL) |
Nero Multimedia Suite | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | ISO, NRG | ISO, NRG | Windows | Shareware |
Nero Burning ROM | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | ISO, NRG | ISO, NRG | Windows | Shareware |
Nero Linux | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | ISO, NRG | ISO, NRG | Linux | Shareware (Discontinued) |
Norton Ghost | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | GHO, GHS, VMDK, V2I, IV2I, PQI | GHO, GHS, VMDK | Windows | Shareware |
Partimage | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Compressed file system images: Ext2, Ext3, Reiserfs, FAT16, FAT32, HPFS, JFS, Xfs, UFS, HFS and NTFS | Ext2, Ext3, Reiserfs, FAT16, FAT32, HPFS, JFS, Xfs, UFS, HFS and NTFS | Linux | Free software (GPL) |
PeaZip | No | No | No | No | Yes | DMG, ISO, VHD, WIM[15] | — | Windows, Linux | Free software (LGPL v3) |
Roxio Creator[16] | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | ISO, C2D, BIN+CUE, GI | ISO, GI | Windows | Proprietary commercial |
Roxio Toast[17] | No | No | No | Yes | No | ISO, BIN+CUE, IMG, DMG, CDR, NRG | — | macOS | Proprietary commercial |
UltraISO | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | BIN+CUE, BWI+BWT, B5T+B5I, B6T+B6I, C2D, CDI, CIF, DAA, DMG, FCD, G2D, GCD, GI, IMA, IMG+CCD, IML, ISO, ISZ, LCD, MDF+MDS, NCD, NRG, P01+MD1+XA, PDI, PXI, TAO, DAO, UIF, VaporCD, VC4/000, VCD, VDI, XMD+XMF[18] | BIN+CUE, CCD+IMG+SUB, ISO, ISZ, MDF+MDS, NRG | Windows | Trialware |
Virtual CloneDrive | No | No | Yes | No | No | ISO, BIN, IMG, UDF, DVD, CCD | — | Windows | Freeware |
Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel | No | No | Yes | No | No | ISO | — | Windows | Freeware |
WADK | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | WIM, WSM | WIM, WSM | Windows NT | Freeware; DISM component is included with Windows |
WinCDEmu | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | ISO, BIN, NRG, MDF+MDS, CCD, IMG | — | Windows | Free software (LGPL) |
File Explorer | VHD only | No | Yes | ISO only | No | ISO,[19][20] VHD[21] | VHD | Windows NT | Part of Windows |
WinISO | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ISO | ISO | Windows | Freemium |
WinRAR | No | No | No | No | Yes | ISO | — | Windows | Shareware |
WinZip | No | No | No | No | Yes | ISO | — | Windows | Shareware |
xorriso | Yes | Yes | Linux FreeBSD | Linux, BSD, Solaris | Yes | ISO | ISO | Unix, Linux, Cygwin, macOS | Free software (GPL) |
Name | Creates? | Modifies? | Mounts? | Writes/ | Extracts? | Input format | Output format | OS | License |
- ^ Specifies whether the application can create a new disc image file, either by capturing the image of an actual disc, by composing a disc image file from locally stored files or an empty disc image.
- ^ Specifies whether the application is able to manipulate the contents of an existing disc image file, including adding, changing or deleting files within or modifying disc image metadata.
- ^ Specifies whether the application can emulate an optical disc drive. Such an application treats a disc image file like a virtual disc and virtually inserts it into that emulated virtual drive.
- ^ Specifies whether the application can write the contents of a disk image file onto a physical media (such as an optical disc, a floppy disk, a hard disk drive or a USB flash drive) and create a physical replica.
- ^ Specifies whether the application can copy some or all of the files within a disc image file to somewhere else.
- ^ Specifies the types of disc image formats that the application can open.
- ^ Specifies the types of disc image formats that the application can save to.
- ^ Past version are made available as freeware from time to time
- ^ Lite editions requires Astroburn[2]
- ^ Daemon Tools supports the following non-image formats: ZIP, APE+CUE, FLAC+CUE, WAV+CUE
- ^ All editions are trialware, except Lite edition, which is only shareware in Korea but freeware elsewhere.[3][4][5][6]
- ^ Opens DVD images (File menu or Ctrl-I)
- ^ MagicDisc is Freeware
See also
[edit]- Disk image
- Disk partitioning
- Optical disc authoring
- List of optical disc authoring software
- Comparison of disc authoring software
- Comparison of disk cloning software
References
[edit]- ^ "7-Zip". 7-zip.org.
- ^ "Main window and toolbar". Daemon Tools documentation. Daemon Tools. Archived from the original on 24 December 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
- ^ "FAQ: Is DAEMON Tools software free or not?". daemon-tools.cc. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
DAEMON Tools Lite is free for home and non-business use. In case you want to use DAEMON Tools in any organization, you need to buy a license.
- ^ "Installation". DAEMON Tools Lite Help. DAEMON Tools. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
[Inside third screenshot] Support is provided only for Paid License users.
- ^ "Daemon tool lite license problem". Archived from the original on 6 May 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2012.
Due to some changes in marketing strategy Korea is no longer among the countries for which a Free version of DAEMON Tools Lite available.
- ^ "DAEMON Tools Lite 5: 당사의 최상급 무료 이미징 소프트웨어 - DAEMON-Tools.cc". daemon-tools.cc.
- ^ "IsoBuster". IsoBuster.
- ^ "IsoBuster 4.1 Release notes".
Support for DC42 image files, which are old style Mac floppy image files
- ^ a b "IsoBuster 4.3 Release notes".
Introduction and use of *.1Kn, *.2Kn, *.4Kn, *.8Kn, ... file extensions for disk images of drives with higher than 512 bytes per sector
- ^ Lawton, Kevin; Denney, Bryce; Guarneri, N. David; Ruppert, Volker; Bothamy, Christophe. Calabrese, Michael; Shwartsman, Stanislav (eds.). "8.8. Mounting a disk image using the loop device". Bochs User Manual. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
- ^ a b "MagicISO Features - ISO CD image extractor, editor, converter". magiciso.com. Archived from the original on 11 April 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2012.
- ^ "MagicISO Virtual CD/DVD-ROM Overview". Archived from the original on 13 April 2005.
- ^ "MagicISO FAQ: How to convert ISO to DMG for Mac OS with MagicISO?". magiciso.com. Archived from the original on 6 May 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2012.
- ^ "MagicISO Virtual CD/DVD-ROM Overview". Archived from the original on 13 April 2005. Retrieved 23 June 2012.
MagicDisc is freeware.
- ^ "Supported formats". Retrieved 10 June 2012.
- ^ "Minimum System Requirements". Roxio NXT Pro portal. Roxio. Archived from the original on 6 May 2014. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
Disc image formats: read ISO, C2D, BIN/CUE and GI; write ISO and GI
- ^ "System Requirements". Roxio Toast 11 Titanium portal. Roxio. Archived from the original on 18 May 2013. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
- ^ "ISO CD image extractor, editor and convertor - UltraISO Revision History". ezbsystems.com.
- ^ "Burn a CD or DVD from an ISO file". windows.microsoft.com. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
- ^ "Accessing data in ISO and VHD files". Building Windows 8. Microsoft. 30 August 2011. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
- ^ "Create and Use a Virtual Hard Disk on Windows 7". technet.microsoft.com. Retrieved 21 February 2016.