Daemon Tools
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DAEMON Tools Pro running on Windows 7
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| Developer(s) | Disc Soft Ltd. |
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| Stable release |
*Ultra 4: 4.0.1 / 10 August 2014
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| Operating system | Windows 98, Windows 2000 and later; OS X 10.6 or later (DT for Mac 2) |
| Available in | 38 Languages with additional translation packs |
| Type | Virtual drive |
| License | Freemium |
| Website | www |
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Supported file types
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| b5t | BlindWrite |
| b6t | BlindWrite |
| bwt | BlindRead |
| ccd | CloneCD |
| cdi | DiscJuggler |
| cue/bin | Cue Sheet |
| iso | Standard ISO |
| isz | Compressed ISO |
| mds/mdf | Media Descriptor File |
| mdx | Media Data eXtended |
| nrg | Nero Burning ROM disc image |
| ape/cue | APE images |
| flac | Free Lossless Audio Codec images |
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| Developer(s) | sYk0 |
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| Stable release |
1.6.9040 / 4 February 2009
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| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Available in | English |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | forum |
DAEMON Tools is a virtual drive and optical disc authoring program for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS.
DAEMON tools was originally a successor of Generic SafeDisc emulator and incorporated all of its features. The program claims to be able to defeat most copy protection schemes such as SafeDisc and SecuROM. It is currently compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10. DAEMON Tools has a special mode for proper operation of copies of discs with advanced protection (SafeDisc, SecuRom and LaserLock, CDCOPS, StarForce and Protect CD), which are used on some discs with games.
Six editions of the product exist: Ultra, Lite, Pro Standard, Pro Advanced, Net and DT for Mac. A feature comparison is given below. Also, company provides two additional solutions for the data storage organization: DAEMON Tools USB 2 that allows sharing different types of USB devices between remote workstations and DAEMON Tools iSCSI Target 2 - a cross-platform solution that enables creating an iSCSI storage server and provides access to virtual or physical devices, along with VHD images, within home or corporate network.
The default file format of DAEMON Tools is Media Data eXtended (MDX). MDX is a disc image file format similar to MDS/MDF images. It supports all of MDS/MDF format features except that all data is in one monolithic file only. The files of these types bear the filename extension of .mdx.
MDX file contains metadata of original media - specifically the main physical parameters of disc, such as layer breaks, sessions, tracks and other. It could be described as being an archive file containing all data from a CD/DVD. It also supports data compression. MDX file includes the magic number "MEDIA DESCRIPTOR" at the beginning of the file.
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