Is very popular. It is used for burning discs, creating bootable flash drives and other tasks related to optical discs. But, the main function of UltraISO is to create disk images. In this article we will talk about how to create a disk image in UltraISO and save it in various formats.
There are two ways to create a disk image in UltraISO:
- Method No. 1. from a real CD, in this case the source for the disk image is a real existing disk, which needs to be inserted into the optical disc drive;
- Method No. 2. Creating a disk image from individual files, in this case the disk image is created from absolutely any files that are on your computer.
Method No. 1. Create a disk image in UltraISO from a real CD.
First, insert the CD into the optical drive and launch the UltraISO program. After that, open the “Tools” menu and select “Create CD image” or simply press the F8 key.
After this, a window will open in front of you to create disk images. In this window you need to select in which the CD is installed.
Specify the location to save the disk image and its name.
And also select the disk image format.
UltraISO has a large selection of available disk image formats. In addition to the classic, the user can choose formats such as compressed ISO, BIN/CUE, NRG, MDF/MDS, IMG/CCD/SUB.
If the disc has scratches or does not want to be read normally, you can check the box next to the “Ignore reading errors” function. But, in this case, the disk image may have damaged files.
\After all the settings have been set, you can click on the “Make” button. After clicking on the “Make” button, the process of creating a disk image in the UltraISO program will begin.
At the end of this process, the disk image will be in the folder you selected.
Method No. 1. Create a disk image in UltraISO from separate files.
In addition, the UltraISO program allows you to create a disk image almost from scratch, using separate files for this. Creating such a disk image is even easier than creating a disk image from a real CD. All you need to do is open the UltraISO program and add the necessary files to it.
Once the files are added you can rename the disk image. To do this, right-click on the disk in the left side of the UltraISO program window.
Transferring many small files over the Internet is not very convenient. It is for this reason that various assemblies of operating systems can be downloaded from the Internet in the form of an image saved in ISO format. The downloaded image can be stored on a computer or written to any device, so you can make a bootable Windows flash drive or disk.
If you have a disk, for example, with a game or various programs, you can create an ISO image from the disk, which will completely preserve the files and its structure. Then, using special programs, for example Alcohol 120% or Daemon Tools, you can launch the created image through . If over time you need to burn a disc from the image you created, read the article on this topic by following the link.
In this article we will look at how you can make an ISO image from files and folders. In this form, it is more convenient to transfer them over the network, and the image transfer speed will be higher than each file separately.
First, let's look at creating an ISO image using the Alcohol 120% program. You can read the description on our website by following the link.
In the menu on the left, click on the button "Image Mastering".
To create an image from files, click on the “Add files” button. If you need to create an ISO image from a folder, click "Add folder".
Select the desired files or folders on your computer and click Open.
You can create folders in the program itself, and then add files to them. To do this, right-click in the program window and select “New Folder” from the menu. You can also use the corresponding button located on the right side.
Once you have added all the files, click Next.
Next, specify the location on your hard drive where you want to save the created ISO image. In the "Image format" field, select "ISO image" from the drop-down list. You can change the "Image name". Click Start. I'll name the image "MyPhoto" and save it to my desktop.
Wait for the process to complete. In the same window you can see how much space the created ISO image takes up on your computer. Click Done.
Now I have the created image in ISO format on my desktop.
By double-clicking on it, you can mount the image into a virtual drive and view the files stored in it. Please note that the amount of memory in the virtual drive corresponds to the size of the created image.
Now let's take a look, how to make an ISO image using the UltraISO program. It is the most popular program that is used to create images, edit them and burn them to disk.
Launch UltraISO. At the bottom of the program window, find the files and folders you need on your computer and drag them to the top area. You can also select them and click on the “Add” button.
The image will be saved in the specified location. It can also be mounted into a virtual drive.
I think now you understand how, using the programs described, you can create an ISO image from files and folders that are stored on your computer.
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Hello, friends! In this article we will figure out how to create an ISO image from files and folders and how to make a bootable image. For example an operating system. You can read how to make an ISO image from a disk. Usually, I use Ashampoo Burning Studio FREE to create images, and UltraISO to write to a flash drive. In this article we will create bootable ISO images from files and folders from which you can install Windows using CDBurnerXP.
This article could have been called “How to edit ISO images.” Image editing programs cost money. In this article I will show you how you can keep this money for yourself.
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https://cdburnerxp.se/ru/download
In order not to install an additional program, download the portable version of CDBurnerXP for .
CDBurnerXP downloaded.
How to create an ISO image from files
Go to the unpacked folder and run cdbxpp.exe .
Click Launch in the window there is a security warning.
Set the name of the ISO image, location and click Save .
The ISO image has been created.
How to create a bootable ISO image
This is the part for which this article was written. For example, we need to edit the ISO image of Windows 7 or Windows 8. In the last article, we downloaded the original image of Windows 7 Ultimate. Therefore, you can install Windows 7 Ultimate from it. To be able to select other versions of Windows 7 during installation (for example, Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional and Ultimate), you need to delete the file in the image ei.cfg. You can do this as follows
Now from the unpacked folder we will create a bootable ISO image of Windows 7
We add files to the project in the same way as described in the second paragraph.
In chapter Emulation type choose No emulation
In chapter Sectors put 8 (Value depends on size etfsboot.com. If the size is 4 KB, set it to 8, since the size of one sector is 512 Bytes or 0.5 KB (4/0.5=8). If the file size etfsboot.com 2 KB - set 4) (Thanks for this valuable information oszone.net). In Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 images, the etfsboot.com file has a size of 4 KB - set it to 8.
In chapter Platform chose x86-32 since I have a 32-bit Windows 7 image
A disk image is an ISO file that stores all the contents of the original media. There are other formats, but this is the most popular.
The computer recognizes the virtual image in the same way as a physical disk. Even if related files were stored on the original media, they will work correctly as an image. Therefore, most often they create disk images with installation files for games, programs and operating systems.
Modern operating systems read ISO files without additional programs. On older operating systems, you can use utilities like Daemon Tools for this. You can also open the image and view its contents using a regular archiver.
Why create disk images?
Let's say you bought a DVD/Blu-ray with a game or movie. Over time, scratches appear on it, which is why you can lose the recorded information. And the disk itself is easy to lose. In addition, it makes noise as it rotates in the drive, and the speed of reading data from it is lower than from computer memory. All these problems can be solved by creating a virtual disk image.
If the disk is copy protected, most likely it will not be possible to create an image of it.
Another example: you have a Windows distribution disk. It can be used for or OS, but a flash drive is much better suited for these purposes. Moreover, many modern computers do not have disk drives at all. But you can create a disk image and make a .
How to create a disk image in Windows
Ashampoo Burning Studio FREE is one of the most convenient utilities for creating disk images. Its interface has been translated into Russian, it takes up little space and is also free. During installation, the program requests a license key, but you can receive it by email after quickly registering an account.
Immediately after launching the utility, select “Disk Image” → “Create Image”. Then insert a physical disk into the drive and wait until the program recognizes it, then click “Next”. Then specify the folder in which the image will be created and select the ISO format. Click “Next” again and wait for the copying to complete.
The disk image will appear in the location you specified in your computer's memory.
If for some reason you are not satisfied with this utility, you can use similar free programs like BurnAware Free or CDBurnerXP.
On a Mac, this can be done in the standard Disk Utility, available in Finder → Programs → Utilities. After launching it, insert the desired disk into the drive and click “File” → “New image” → “Image from [name of your disk]” in the top menu.
In the next window, enter the short name of the future image in Latin. Specify the desktop as the destination and select the “DVD/CD Master” format. After that, click “Save” and wait until the copying is completed.
The created image will appear on the desktop and will have a CDR extension. If you plan to use it only on , then you can leave this format. But for Windows computers to read it, you need to convert the CDR file to ISO.
To change the image format, run the Terminal utility. Type cd desktop and press Enter. Then enter the second command hdiutil makehybrid -iso -joliet -o [name 1].iso [name 2].cdr, after replacing [name 1] and [name 2] with the names of the future ISO file and the already created CDR file, respectively. Then press Enter again - after a while the ISO image will appear on the desktop.
Let's say we first created a CDR file called olddisk. Then we choose, for example, the name newdisk for the future ISO image. As a result, the commands for our case will look like this:
A disk image is a file that contains the most complete information about the file structure and data of any media (hard drives, optical disks, USB drives, etc.). It can be used for completely different purposes (installation or system recovery, data backup). The following will show you how to create an ISO image. Let's take Windows 7 as the platform used. But consideration of this issue is inextricably linked with what kind of result should be obtained.
How to create an ISO disk image in Windows 7: options
Despite the fact that today you can find quite a lot of image formats, we will focus on considering all the procedures based on the most popular ISO format, which is supported by all programs and systems.
So how do you create an ISO image? Windows 7 is a platform that is perfect for such purposes. Based on further use, images can be divided into several categories:
- installation distribution image;
- to boot and restore the system;
- a backup image of Windows, programs and user information.
Most popular programs
Today, you can find quite a lot of applications on the software market that can work with images. The most popular are the following:
- UltraISO.
- Daemon Tools.
- Nero.
- Alcohol 120%.
- ISO Workshop.
- Acronis True Image, etc.
With a wide variety of all kinds of software, you should also take into account that Windows systems themselves have good tools for working with images. This particularly applies to backup and recovery. Like most of the above-mentioned programs, such tools allow you to create images in a matter of minutes. True, if the contents of a hard drive or virtual partition are copied, it may even take several hours. It all depends on the amount of information.
Creating a disk image using Microsoft resources
Few people know that recently developers from Microsoft Corporation have provided users of licensed Windows 7 operating systems with the opportunity to create a system image for recovery in case of unexpected failures directly on the official web resource. How to create an ISO image of Windows 7 in such a situation? As it turns out, it’s as simple as shelling pears. To do this, you need to go to the Microsoft website in the Software section, scroll down the page and see if the product license key is actually listed there (nothing will work without it).
If there is a key, then through the “Control Panel” you need to go to the system and security section, where the “System” subsection is selected and activate the security key check (this can also be done through the RMB menu on the computer icon, where the properties line is selected). If the key is valid, the browser will begin creating an image directly on the site, with which you can subsequently perform a recovery.
How to Create a Bootable Windows 7 ISO Image
If you don't have a key, you can use another tool. The question of how to create an ISO image of Windows 7 using system tools is resolved through the archiving and recovery section. Here, in the menu on the left, you need to use the image creation item, and after scanning, the system will prompt you to select the option for saving data (hard drive, optical media, network location). If we are only talking about creating a disk from which you can then boot and fix some malfunctions or glitches, you can choose DVD-ROM. However, if you are backing up an entire disk partition, it is better to save the copy on a hard drive (you may need too many optical disks).
Additionally, you can use the creation of a recovery disk from which the boot will be made if a backup copy is saved on the hard drive. In principle, you can use third-party utilities, but when creating an image you should pay attention to one point. The image you create must have boot entries. For example, UltraISO offers to create an ISO image of Windows 7 through the boot menu (Make Disk Image). In this case, we mean a copy of the hard drive with a working system. From it in the future it will be possible to restore not only the OS itself, but also all installed programs in a few minutes.
Creating an installation image
Finally, one more aspect. Let's say you want to create an ISO image of Windows 7 as an installation distribution that you can save to your hard drive or burn to optical media. To do this, you will need a real DVD with the distribution and one of the above programs. For convenience, again, let's take UltraISO.
We insert the original DVD into the drive, and in the running program we use the tools menu, where the image creation line is selected (to quickly call the procedure, you can press the F8 key). Next, select the drive with the distribution, indicate the storage location and the name of the image file being saved, and set the output format (in our case, ISO). After that, click the “Make” button and wait for the process to complete. The file will be saved in the selected directory. Then it can be written to an optical disc.
Instead of an afterword
Finally, it remains to add that when creating images, you should initially pay attention to what kind of data such a file should contain. Depending on the purpose and sequence of actions will be different. In terms of the programs used, the user himself decides what to give preference to. In general, all means are good. However, it is believed that backups can be created both using system tools and using third-party programs, but making copies of optical media using Windows tools is a troublesome task. All you have to do is copy files to the hard drive, displaying hidden objects, then write them to disk, etc. Moreover, such a copy will not be an image. To simplify all these procedures, we can speak with 100% confidence about the advantage of third-party utilities.