In the world there are a huge variety of file extensions. In this article, I would like to separately distinguish only three: ISO, MDS and MDX. We can say with confidence that most users have come across only one - ISO, but they all belong to the same category - these are images. Being able to work with images is very important, because many games and programs are downloaded from the Internet in them. And Daemon Tools will help with this work. What kind of program is it, what it can do and what functions are most important in it - we will tell in our article.
Mounting
Since we decided to discuss the Daemon Tools 7 Lite program, and it will be about this particular version of the application, we should first of all talk about its most popular and most used function - mounting new drives. To understand everything, it is worth considering one example. Suppose you downloaded a game from the Internet, but in the end you found that the file has the ISO extension. In this case, the installation will occur using a non-standard method. The fact is that ISO is a disk image, but what do you do with disks? Correctly insert into the drive and wait until it appears in the "Explorer". With ISO files, it’s almost the same, but instead of placing the “blanks” in the drive, you need to run the file in Daemon Tools and select the mount option. The program in this case will create a virtual drive and put there all the files that were in the image, well, and further actions will be similar to those that are carried out with the disk.
Image creation
In Demon Tool Lite, in addition to mounting disks, there are a huge number of functions. For example, creating images from disks. Let's draw an analogy with the ISO-file downloaded from the Internet. The fact is that it is created using this function. The user takes a disk, for example, with a game, puts it in the drive, launches the program and, using the option to create an image from the disk, puts the file from the inserted "blank" into the ISO image. In the future, such files can be distributed on the Internet, burn to discs, etc.
Conversion
We already realized that Daemon Tools is a program for working with images, but in addition to mounting and creating, there is also the possibility of conversion. At the beginning of the article, it was said that there are many image formats, but this program can only work with three: ISO, MDS and MDX. So, you can easily convert, for example, MDS to ISO using it.
Burn image to disk
When it came to creating images, it was said that in the future they could be written to disk. For this, the Daemon Tools program is just the same. In fact, everything is simple here. You have an image on your computer, say, some program and you want to drop it to a friend, in this case you just need to insert the disk into the drive and, using Daemon Tools, write all the image files to the disk.
Burn files to disk
But what if you want to write to disk not an image, but any other files. This feature is also present in the Demon Tool. The algorithm of actions is completely repeated, the difference is that in the program you need to choose not any ISO-file, but any other files that you need to write.
Burn Audio CD
Do you have an old CD player, but alas, there are no music discs anywhere? Or do you drop the music to disk, but the player does not play it? It is wonderful that in the presented program there is a special function that allows you to record music files to disk, with the subsequent possibility of their launching on old players. And the root of the problem is just the format. Players support the Audio CD format, but everyone knows that it has long been supplanted by the same MP3. The program, when writing to a disc, converts, so that after the end of the recording process, the music on the disc will turn on in your player without any problems.
Disk Cleanup
It has been repeatedly said that Daemon Tools is a program for working with images. But in fact, its capabilities are much greater. It also works with disks, and the option to clean them says this. What is she like? You insert a disk into the drive that contains the files you don’t need (it’s only important that it be rewritable - this is the CD-RW and DVD-RW format), start the program, click the “Erase disk” button and, as a result, you have a blank disk, on which can record new files.
Copy
You are very lucky if your computer has several drive drives. In this case, you can easily copy all the information from one disk to another. Yes, Daemon Tools can do this too. You just need to insert a data disk in one drive, and a blank disk in the second, and then indicate in the program where which one is and start copying.
Create Virtual HDD
For most users, this option is simply useless, but knowledgeable people understand its importance. In a nutshell, it allows you to create an additional storage device from your RAM, and in addition, it has the ability to create virtual hard drives for OS backup.
Create bootable drive
Do not think that Daemon Tools is a program that works only with images and disks: it also copes well with flash drives. For example, you can write a bootable USB flash drive. Not sure what it is? It is necessary to run the software or the installer of the operating system (most often) from under BIOS. Often used to install Windows.
Create a password for the flash drive
Without moving far from the topic with a flash drive, I want to talk more about the possibility of setting a password for it. This is very convenient if you need to hide the data on it from prying eyes. By the way, in the future you can safely remove it if necessary.
Conclusion
So you found out about all the features of the Daemon Tools program. We hope this article gave you the answer to the question of whether to install this program on your computer.