How to create a disk image in ISO format

Vindovs Macos / by admin / December 19, 2019

Virtual copies of CDs with the OS, games or applications to conveniently store and use it to record on a flash card and transmitted over the network.

What is a disk image

A disk image is a file in ISO format, which stores all the contents of the original media. There are other formats, but the most popular one.

The computer recognizes a virtual image in the same way as a physical disk. Even if the original media files stored interconnected, they will work correctly and in a way. Therefore, most often create a disk image with the installation of games files, programs and operating systems.

Modern OS read ISO-files without any additional software. On older operating systems, you can use utilities like Daemon Tools. Open the image and view the contents of the can and using a conventional historian.

Why create disk images

Let's say you bought a DVD / Blu-ray with a game or a movie. Over time, it gets scratched, causing possible loss of recorded information. And the disc itself is easy to lose. Moreover it is noisy, rotating in a drive and read from it the data rate is lower than the computer memory. All these problems can be solved by creating a virtual disk image.

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If the disc is copy protected, is likely to create an image of it will not work.

Another example: you have a CD with the Windows distribution. It can be used for install or restoration OS, but it is much better suited for this purpose flash drive. Especially since many modern computers do not have floppy drives. But you can create a disk image and make it bootable USB-drive.

How to create a disk image in Windows

Ashampoo Burning Studio FREE - one of the most convenient tools for creating disk images. Its interface is translated into Russian, it takes up little space and also free. During the installation program asks for a license key, but you can get it to the post office after a quick registration process.

Immediately after the utility starts, select "Disk Image» → «Create an image". Then, insert your physical drive and wait until the program detects it, and then click "Next". Then navigate to the folder in which the image is created, and select the ISO format. Again click "Next" and wait for the copy.

A disk image will appear in the place specified by you in the computer's memory.

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If for some reason you are not satisfied with this utility, you can use similar free programs like BurnAware Free or CDBurnerXP.

How to create a disk image in macOS

On the Mac, this can be done in a standard "Disk Utility", available in the Finder → «Program» → «Utility». Start it, insert the desired disc into the drive and click in the "File" → top menu "New image» → «The image of [your hard drive name]".

In the next window, enter the name of a Latin short vision of the future. As a destination, specify the desktop (desktop) and select the format "Master DVD / CD». Then click "Save" and wait for the copy.

The created image will appear on the desktop and will have an extension of the CDR. If you plan to use it only for MacIt is possible to leave and this format. But to be readable by a computer with Windows, you need to convert CDR-file to ISO.

To change the image format, run the utility "Terminal". enter the command cd desktop and press Enter. Then enter a second team hdiutil makehybrid -iso -joliet -o [name 1] .iso [name 2] .cdrAfter replacing the [name 1] and [name 2] the names of the future of the ISO file and have created CDR-file, respectively. Then again press the Enter - after a while the ISO image will appear on the desktop.

Let's say, was first designed CDR-file named olddisk. Then we choose for the future of the ISO image, for example, the name newdisk. The team result in our case will be: