ISO image create for a compact combination of multiple files and folders as a single file. With the help of special applications, this is easy. This instruction offers familiarity only with some of them. Their advantage is that they are freely accomplished positively proven themselves and easy to use. You can create an image with saving the file system, boot sectors of the disk.
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ISO Disk Image Users create when they want to increase the service life of the CD. It is not great - external drives quickly wear out. Contact, you can save the necessary data by making a copy of the disk. Service information, such as copy protection, is not included in the image. You can create, mount, protect password with applications that have different versions - free and paid.
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CDBURNERXP - a program with great functionality, access is free on it official website. It will help to create an image of the boot disk, split volume information to a number of disks. After the burning, analyzes the result, writes to any CD / DVD disk, including two-layer. Works in all versions of Windows, has many awards. Minus - with a virtual drive does not work. After installing, run the program to execute the image from selected files. In the Select Top Disc Cool window, click OK.
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For the project, select files, folders you want to enable in the image. Go to the "File" menu, here click the line "Save the project as an ISO image ...". Enter the name of the future image below in the "File Name" field. In conclusion, press "Save". Everything, the image from selected files is stored under the specified name in the specified location.
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Similarly, you can create a copy of the entire disk. Select "Copy Disk" in the main menu. If there is one drive in the computer, it is used as a "source" and "receiver". The temporary image will be created on the hard disk, then rewritten to the receiver disk after installation. The "Source" disk is retrieved automatically, it should be replaced with clean. To save the image on the hard drive as a receiver file type, specify "ISO", put the switch to the "hard disk".
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Ultraiso - paid program, works with different OS, can create an image on a virtual drive, mounts images collected by other applications. On official website The trial version is available for familiarization, it can be downloaded for free. When installing, proceed according to the instructions. Instead of a license, select a trial period. After completing the installation, run the utility. The interface is transparent, intuitive. At the bottom of the window directory of folders and files on your disk. At the top - a new project (its name and content). Change the created automatically image name - the "Rename" command in the context menu.
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Highlight files for inclusion in the image. The easiest way is to simply drag the desired files from the bottom to the top or from Windows Explorer. If you wish, you can pre-create an image directory tree in the top of the window to systematize information. Save the created project to the file. In the "File" menu there is a "Save As ..." command. Specify the final location of the position and type (more often choose "ISO"). Wait for the end of the process, then find the file in the specified location.
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The image of the ISO utility Ultraiso can be created from the CD. Select the Create CD image from the Tools item. Next, specify the original disk, the name of the image, its format. Click the "Make" button. If the drive is the only one, then replace the original in the copy process. Upon completion of work, you will have a file image - a copy of the source disk.
Extract files from the image in the absence of a special utility can be a WinRAR program, as from the usual archive. Be sure to check its performance, as well as the status of the receiver's disk, otherwise the process will fail.
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