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[lower-alpha 1] | Modifies?[lower-alpha 2] | Mounts?[lower-alpha 3] | Writes/Burns?[lower-alpha 4] | Extracts?[lower-alpha 5] | Input format[lower-alpha 6] | Output format[lower-alpha 7] | 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 | N/A | Windows | Adware
AnyDVD HD  | Yes | No | No | No | No | N/A | ISO | Windows | Shareware
Archive Manager  | No | No | No | No | Yes | ISO | N/A | Unix-like | Free software (GPL)
Ashampoo Burning Studio | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | ISO, BIN+CUE | ISO, BIN+CUE | Windows | Shareware[lower-alpha 8]
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 | N/A | 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 | N/A | ? | Linux,
Unix | Free software (GPL)
isoinfo | No | No | No | No | Yes | ? | N/A | Unix,
Linux,
Amiga
Windows,
macOS | Free software (GPL)
mkisofs | Yes | No | No | No | No | N/A | ? | 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 | N/A | ISO, UFD, IMG | Windows | Shareware
CloneDVD | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ISO | ISO | Windows | Shareware
Daemon Tools | Yes | All editions
except Lite | Yes | Yes[lower-alpha 9] | All editions
except Lite | BIN+CUE, B5T, B6T, BWT, CCD, CDI, ISO, ISZ, MDF+MDS, MDX, NRG, VHD, VMDK and TrueCrypt[lower-alpha 10] | ISO, MDF+MDS, MDX – VHD and TrueCrypt in Ultra edition | Windows | Freemium[lower-alpha 11]
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[lower-alpha 12] | 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 | N/A | 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 | N/A | 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[lower-alpha 13][14]
mount | No | No | Yes | No | No | ISO | N/A | 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] | N/A | 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 | N/A | 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 | N/A | Windows | Freeware
Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel  | No | No | Yes | No | No | ISO | N/A | 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 | N/A | 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 | N/A | Windows | Shareware
WinZip | No | No | No | No | Yes | ISO | N/A | 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/Burns?  | Extracts?  | Input format  | Output format  | OS | License

1. ↑ 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.
2. ↑ 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.
3. ↑ 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.
4. ↑ 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.
5. ↑ Specifies whether the application can copy some or all of the files within a disc image file to somewhere else.
6. ↑ Specifies the types of disc image formats that the application can open.
7. ↑ Specifies the types of disc image formats that the application can save to.
8. ↑ Past version are made available as freeware from time to time
9. ↑ Lite editions requires Astroburn[2]
10. ↑ Daemon Tools supports the following non-image formats: ZIP, APE+CUE, FLAC+CUE, WAV+CUE
11. ↑ All editions are trialware, except Lite edition, which is only shareware in Korea but freeware elsewhere.[3][4][5][6]
12. ↑ Opens DVD images (File menu or Ctrl-I)
13. ↑ MagicDisc is Freeware

## See also

* Disk image
* Disk partitioning
* Optical disc authoring
* List of optical disc authoring software
* Comparison of disc authoring software
* Comparison of disk cloning software

## References

1. ↑ "7-Zip". https://www.7-zip.org/.
2. ↑ "Main window and toolbar". Daemon Tools documentation. Daemon Tools. http://daemon-help.com/en/user_interface_lite/tray_icon_right_click_menu_lite/mountndrive_manager/toolbar.html.
3. ↑ "FAQ: Is DAEMON Tools software free or not?". daemon-tools.cc. http://www.daemon-tools.cc/eng/support/faq#free_or_not. "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."
4. ↑ "Installation". DAEMON Tools Lite Help. DAEMON Tools. http://daemon-help.com/en/installation_notes_lite/installation_lite.html. "[Inside third screenshot] Support is provided only for Paid License users."
5. ↑ "Daemon tool lite license problem". http://forum.daemon-tools.cc/f19/daemon-tool-lite-license-problem-28984/. "Due to some changes in marketing strategy Korea is no longer among the countries for which a Free version of DAEMON Tools Lite available."
6. ↑ "DAEMON Tools Lite 5: 당사의 최상급 무료 이미징 소프트웨어 - DAEMON-Tools.cc". https://www.daemon-tools.cc/kor/products/dtLite.
7. ↑ "IsoBuster". https://www.isobuster.com/.
8. ↑ "IsoBuster 4.1 Release notes". https://www.isobuster.com/news/isobuster_4.1_release_notes. "Support for DC42 image files, which are old style Mac floppy image files"
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "IsoBuster 4.3 Release notes". https://www.isobuster.com/news/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"
10. ↑ Lawton, Kevin; Denney, Bryce; Guarneri, N. David; Ruppert, Volker; Bothamy, Christophe. "8.8. Mounting a disk image using the loop device". http://bochs.sourceforge.net/doc/docbook/user/index.html.
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 "MagicISO Features - ISO CD image extractor,editor, converter.". http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-features.htm.
12. ↑ "MagicISO Virtual CD/DVD-ROM Overview". http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-magicdisc-overview.htm.
13. ↑ "MagicISO FAQ: How to convert ISO to DMG for Mac OS with MagicISO?". http://www.magiciso.com/FAQ/FAQ0012.htm?=mdisc_hlp106.
14. ↑ "MagicISO Virtual CD/DVD-ROM Overview". http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-magicdisc-overview.htm. "MagicDisc is freeware."
15. ↑ "Supported formats". http://peazip.sourceforge.net/peazip-free-archiver.html#supported_formats.
16. ↑ "Minimum System Requirements". Roxio NXT Pro portal. Roxio. http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/creator/pro/system-requirements.html. "Disc image formats: read ISO, C2D, BIN/CUE and GI; write ISO and GI"
17. ↑ "System Requirements". Roxio Toast 11 Titanium portal. Roxio. http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/titanium/system-requirements.html.
18. ↑ "ISO CD image extractor, editor and convertor - UltraISO Revision History". http://www.ezbsystems.com/ultraiso/history.htm.
19. ↑ "Burn a CD or DVD from an ISO file". http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/burn-a-cd-or-dvd-from-an-iso-file.
20. ↑ "Accessing data in ISO and VHD files". Microsoft. 30 August 2011. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/b8/2011/08/30/accessing-data-in-iso-and-vhd-files/.
21. ↑ "Create and Use a Virtual Hard Disk on Windows 7". https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee872416.aspx.

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