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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
- ^ "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.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
daemon-tools-l1was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Cite error: The named reference
daemon-tools-l2was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Cite error: The named reference
DTL Korean licensingwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Cite error: The named reference
DTL Korean EULAwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Cite error: The named reference
IsoBuster-image-file-supportwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Cite error: The named reference
IsoBuster-dc42was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
IsoBuster-*Kn-Supportwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ 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 Cite error: The named reference
magicisofeatureswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Cite error: The named reference
miso-magicdisc-overviewwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Cite error: The named reference
miso-convertwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "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.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Roxio Creatorwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Cite error: The named reference
Roxio Toastwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "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.