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PowerISO 2.8

Quick specs
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: February 03, 2006
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

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 CD/DVD image file processing tool, which allows you to open, extract, create, edit, compress, encrypt, split and convert ISO files, and mount these files with internal virtual drive. It can process almost all CD-ROM image files including ISO and BIN. PowerISO can be used easily, which support shell integration, context menu, drag and drop, clipboard copy paste.

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