PowerISO 2.61

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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 20, 2005
• Total Downloads: 8,738,137
• Downloads last week: 76,990
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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

Create,edit,extract,convert,compress,encrypt,mount CD/DVD image file. PowerISO is a powerful CD/DVD image file processing tool, which allows you to create, edit, extract, convert, compress, and encrypt CD/DVD image files, and mount these files with internal virtual drive. PowerISO supports shell integration, such as context menu, Drag and Drop, clipboard. With PowerISO, you can: process CD/DVD image files, make bootable CD image file; mount image file with internal virtual drive; Compress files and folders to a compressed file. PowerISO will scan and optimize the files during compression, and thus can have better compression ratio and faster compression speed; Split the image file into multiple volumes; Protect the image file with a password; Use the compressed image file directly without decompressing. PowerISO virtual drive can mount the compressed image file directly.

Version 2.61 added support for cdi, mdf, bwi, b5i format image file.

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