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PowerISO 2.1

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Price: Free to try (300MB-file trial); $29.95 to buy (Buy it now)
Operating system: Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
Date added: October 02, 2005
Total Downloads: 8,738,137
Downloads last week: 76,990
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CNET editors' rating: 4.0 stars
Average user rating: 3.0 stars out of 254 votes
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CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET Staff on November 07, 2008

This muscular disc-imaging utility is not kidding around (though we thought the demo might be). PowerISO lets you mount virtual drives, create bootable discs, and generate CD and floppy images. It supports a huge number of image formats, including standard ISO and IMG files as well as files created by almost all popular disc-burning programs such as Nero, CloneCD, and Alcohol120%.

Our one major caveat is that the trial version doesn't let you create images larger than 300MB (most CDs hold 700MB), making it much harder to fully test the product. On the other hand, the trial period is unlimited, so some users may actually prefer this arrangement. Trial restrictions aside, we think PowerISO makes a good pick for intermediate to advanced users.

Publisher's description

From PowerISO Computing :

PowerISO is a powerful image processing and file compression tool, which allows you to create, extract, compress, edit and convert ISO/BIN image files, and mount these files with internal virtual drive. And most of all, the compressed files can be used directly without decompressing.DAA(Direct-Access-Archive) is an advanced image file format introduced by PowerISO, which supports some advanced features, such as compression, password protection, and splitting to multiple volumes. It can be handled directly just like other formats, such as ISO, BIN, ...

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