MagicISO (also referred to as MagicISO Maker) is a CD/DVD image
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utility that can extract, edit, create, and burn
disc image
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files. It offers the possibility of converting between
ISO
ISO is the most common abbreviation for the International Organization for Standardization.
ISO or Iso may also refer to: Business and finance
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and
CUE/BIN and their proprietary Universal Image Format disc image format.
It is able to read and write to disc images without decompressing or moving the files. It can also convert the data from existing CD/DVD-ROMs to disc images. It can also create bootable image files (file extension .bif). MagicISO can
mount
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Places
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disc images with the addition of MagicISO Virtual CD/DVD Manager.
The trial version cannot handle disc images larger than 300 MB. MagicISO is currently produced by MagicISO, Inc.
Universal Image Format
Universal Image Format or UIF is a proprietary disc image format for CDs and DVDs designed for MagicISO. Compared to the widespread simpler image formats like .iso and .bin, UIF adds
compression, password-protected
encryption
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, MD5
checksums, and multi-session images.
Problems with MagicISO
MagicISO supports CIF files created by
Easy CD Creator, but only data CDs (ISO 9660 compatibles), not audio CDs. MagicISO also installs a context menu through the file C:\MagicISO\misosh64.dll (if installed to default directories) which is not removed with the software when uninstalled, rather, it remains on your system and is not easily removed.
MagicDisc
MagicDisc, sometimes known as MagicISO Virtual CD/DVD Manager is a
freeware
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virtual drive counterpart to MagicISO. It is a separate download needed to mount discs virtually. MagicDisc can also decompress UIF images to ISO format.
Unlike MagicISO, MagicDisc does not have support for
.daa files that were produced by PowerISO.
See also
*
List of ISO image software
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Comparison criteria
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References
External links
UIF2ISO- open-source tool to convert MagicISO UIF images into
ISO image
An optical disc image (or ISO image, from the ISO 9660 file system used with CD-ROM media) is a disk image that contains everything that would be written to an optical disc, disk sector by disc sector, including the optical disc file system. IS ...
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UIF to ISO- free tool to convert UIF images into
ISO image
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Optical disc authoring
Disk image editors
Disk image emulators
Shareware
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