| | Optical disc authoring | | | | | Optical media types | - Laserdisc
- Compact disc/CD-ROM: CD-R, CD-RW
- MiniDisc
- DVD: DVD-R, DVD-D, DVD-R DL, DVD+R,
DVD+R DL, DVD-RW, DVD+RW,
DVD-RW DL, DVD+RW DL, DVD-RAM - Blu-ray Disc: BD-R, BD-RE
- HD DVD: HD DVD-R: HD DVD-RAM
- UDO
- UMD
- Holographic data storage
- 3D optical data storage
- History of optical storage media
| | | Standards | | | A disk image is a computer file containing the complete contents and structure of a data storage medium or device, such as a Hard drive, CD or DVD. The term has been generalized to cover any such file, whether originated from an actual physical storage device or not. As such, a disk image contains all the information necessary to replicate the structure and contents layout, as well as the actual contents, of a storage device, and this is the distinguishing feature between an ordinary backup and a disk image. A disk image file is usually created based upon the sectors on the medium, ignoring its filing system. In computing, optical disc authoring, including CD authoring and DVD authoring, known often as burning, is the process of recording source material—video, audio or other data—onto an optical disc (compact disc or DVD). ...
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Optical disc authoring software is computer software for authoring optical discs including CD-ROMs and DVDs. ...
CD and DVD recorders for authoring optical discs such as CD-ROMs and DVDs have a history of various technologies. ...
In optical disc authoring, there are multiple modes for recording, including Disc-At-Once, Track-At-Once, and Session-At-Once. ...
Packet writing is an optical disc recording technology used to allow writeable CD and DVD media to be used in a similar manner to a floppy disk. ...
Not to be confused with disk laser, a type of solid-state laser in a flat configuration. ...
A compact disc or CD is an optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio. ...
The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ...
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Compact Disc ReWritable (CD-RW) is a rewritable optical disc format. ...
See also IBMs VM operating system family, where minidisk refers to a logical unit of storage. ...
Size comparison: A 12 cm Sony DVD+RW and a 19 cm Dixon Ticonderoga pencil. ...
A DVD+R disc The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ...
DVD-D is a self-destructing disposable DVD format. ...
DVD-R DL (Dual Layer) (Also Known as DVD-R9) is a derivative of the DVD-R format standard. ...
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DVD+R DL (Double Layer), also known as DVD+R9, is a derivative of the DVD+R format created by the DVD+RW Alliance. ...
The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ...
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JVC has announced they have gotten around to developing dual layered DVD-RW discs (DVD-RW DL). ...
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You can recognize a DVD-RAM immediately because visually there are lots of little rectangles distributed on the surface of the data carrier. ...
A blank rewritable Blu-ray disc (a BD-RE) A Blu-ray Disc (also called BD) is a high-density optical disc format for the storage of digital information, including high-definition video. ...
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HD-DVD disc HD DVD (for High Density Digital Versatile Disc) is a digital optical media format which is being developed as one standard for high-definition DVD. HD DVD is similar to the competing Blu-ray Disc, which also uses the same CD sized (120 mm diameter) optical data...
HD DVD-R is the writable disc variant of HD DVD, and is now currently available with a single-layer capacity of 15GB. Currently, HD DVD-R has slower write speeds than the competing BD-R format (1–2x vs 1–4x) and lower storage capacity. ...
An example of proposed HD DVD-RAM media. ...
Ultra Density Optical (UDO) is a next-generation optical disc format designed for high-density storage of high-definition video and data. ...
A UMD The Universal Media Disc (UMD) is an optical disc medium developed by Sony for use on the PlayStation Portable. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Holographic memory. ...
3D Optical Data Storage is characterized by the ability to inscribe data within the volume of a data storage medium with three-dimensional resolution, as opposed to the two-dimensional resolution afforded by, for example, magnetic tape or CD. This innovation potentially allows very high data densities, but requires addressing...
Although research into optical data storage has been ongoing for many decades, the first popular system was CD-ROM, introduced in 1982, adapted to data storage (the CD-ROM format) with the 1985 Yellow Book, and re-adapted as the first mass market optical storage medium with CD-R and...
The Rainbow Books are a collection of standards defining the allowed formats of Compact Discs. ...
ISO 9660, a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization, defines a file system for CD-ROM media. ...
Joliet is the name of an extension to the ISO 9660 file system. ...
The Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol (RRIP, IEEE P1282) is an extension to the ISO 9660 volume format which adds POSIX file system semantics. ...
The Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol (RRIP, IEEE P1282) is an extension to the ISO 9660 volume format which adds POSIX file system semantics. ...
The El Torito Bootable CD Specification is an extension to the ISO 9660 CD-ROM specification. ...
Overview Apple Macintosh computers use the HFS (or HFS+) file system on hard disks, mainly. ...
The Universal Disk Format (UDF) is a format specification of a file system for storing files on optical media. ...
The Mount Rainier logo Mount Rainier is a format for re-writable optical discs which provides for packet writing and defect management. ...
A computer file is a collection of information that is stored in a computer system and can be identified by its full path name. ...
Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ...
CD may stand for: Compact Disc Canadian Forces Decoration Cash Dispenser (at least used in Japan) CD LPMud Driver Centrum-Demokraterne (Centre Democrats of Denmark) Certificate of Deposit České Dráhy (Czech Railways) Chad (NATO country code) Chalmers Datorförening (computer club of the Chalmers University of Technology) a 1960s...
Size comparison: A 12 cm Sony DVD+RW and a 19 cm Dixon Ticonderoga pencil. ...
In the context of computer hardware, a sector is a sub-division of a track on a magnetic disk or optical disc. ...
See File system for the terms usage in computing. ...
Originally disk images were used for backup and disk cloning, where replication or storage of an exact structure was necessary or efficient. With the advent of optical drives such as CD-ROM and DVD, a more commonly encountered type of disk image is a CD/DVD image, often in the form of an .ISO file (or sometimes a .BIN/.CUE file), referring to the ISO 9660 file system commonly used on such disks. These provide an exact digital replica of a CD/DVD, whereby all of the data is stored in one file to completely preserve the data structure and integrity of the CD/DVD. The .ISO format is the most common format for software disk images, but does not support multi-track data or audio CDs. In general, disk imaging is essential for retaining copy-protection data and multi-track data/audio on CD/DVD.-1...
Disk cloning is a category of software which copies the contents of one computer hard disk to another. ...
Optical Storage is made possible by data storage devices such as optical discs and holographic storage systems. ...
The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ...
Size comparison: A 12 cm Sony DVD+RW and a 19 cm Dixon Ticonderoga pencil. ...
This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
ISO 9660, a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization, defines a file system for CD-ROM media. ...
Red Book is the standard for audio CDs (Compact Disc Digital Audio system, or CDDA). ...
Other common disk image formats include: .img (commonly used for USB stick and hard disks) and .DMG (used by Apple Macintosh). Proprietary formats include .NRG (Nero Burning ROM), .MDS/.MDF (Alcohol 120%), .DAA (PowerISO), .PQI (DriveImage), and .CCD/.IMG/.SUB (CloneCD). It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Disk image. ...
Jumpdrive redirects here; for the unrelated science fiction concept, see Jump drive A USB flash drive, shown with a 24 mm U.S. quarter coin for scale. ...
A file with the extension . ...
The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ...
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Nero Burning ROM is a popular optical disc authoring program for Microsoft Windows and Linux by Nero AG, formerly Ahead Software. ...
Nero Burning ROM is a popular optical disc authoring program for Microsoft Windows and Linux by Nero AG, formerly Ahead Software. ...
Alcohol 120% is an optical disc authoring program and disk image emulator created by Alcohol Soft. ...
Direct Access Archive, or DAA, is a proprietary file format invented by PowerISO Computing, Inc. ...
PowerISO is a computer program used to create, open, mount, compress, and encrypt ISO files. ...
DriveImage (PQDI) is a software disk cloning package for Intel-based computers. ...
CloneCD is a proprietary optical disc authoring software that makes copies of music and data CDs regardless of any copy protection measures. ...
Imaging process
Creating a disk image is achieved through a suitable program. Different imaging softwares as a rule focus on either hard drive imaging (including hard drive backup, restore and rollout), or optical media imaging (CD/DVD images). Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ...
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In computing, sound reproduction, and video, an optical disc is flat, circular, usually polycarbonate disc whereon data is stored. ...
Hard drive imaging In Hard Drive Imaging, there are three main areas of focus:
A) Forensic Imaging, which is the process where the entire drive contents are imaged to a file and checksum values are calculated to verify the integrity (in court cases) of the image file (often referred to as a “hash value”.) Forensic images are acquired with the use of software tools (Some hardware cloning tools have added forensic functionality.)
B) Drive Cloning, which as previously mentioned is typically used to replicate the contents of the hard drive for use in another system. This can typically be done by software-only programs as it typically only requires the cloning of file structure and files themselves.
C) Data Recovery Imaging, which (like forensic imaging) is the process of imaging every single sector on the source drive to an alternate location from which required files can be retrieved. In data recovery situations, one cannot rely on the integrity of the file structure and therefore a complete sector copy is mandatory (also similar to forensic imaging.) The similarities to forensic imaging end there though. Forensic images are typically acquired using software tools such as EnCase and FTK. However, software tools have significantly limited ability to deal with drives that are not 100% functional (which is often the case in Data Recovery and why the drive was submitted for recovery in the first place.) Data Recovery imaging must have the ability to pre-configure drives by disabling certain attributes (such a SMART and G-List re-mapping,) the ability to work with unstable drives (drive instability / read instability can be caused by minute mechanical wear and other issues,) as well, data recovery imaging must have the ability to read data from “bad sectors.” (Read instability is a major factor when working with drives in operating systems such as Windows. A typical operating system is limited in its ability to deal with drives that take a long time to read.) For these reasons, software that relies on the BIOS and operating system to communicate with the hard drive is often unsuccessful in data recovery imaging; separate hardware control of the source hard drive is required to achieve the full spectrum of data recovery imaging. This is due to the fact that the operating system (through the BIOS) has a certain set of protocols or rules for communication with the drive that cannot be violated (such as when the hard drive detects a bad sector. A hard drive’s protocols will not allow “bad” data to be propagated through to the operating system.) Data Recovery images may or may not make use of any type of image file. Typically, a data recovery image is preformed drive to drive and therefore no image file is required.
CD/DVD imaging Common disk-imaging programs are: Alcohol 120%,Daemon Tools, CDRWin, CloneCD/DVD and Nero Burning ROM for Windows; Disk Utility, Roxio Toast and Disco for Macintosh; K3B and X-CD-Roast for Linux; dd for Unix-like operating systems. Alcohol 120% is an optical disc authoring program and disk image emulator created by Alcohol Soft. ...
This article is about the disk image emulator. ...
CDRWIN is an application for Microsoft Windows for recording CDs. ...
CloneCD is a proprietary optical disc authoring software that makes copies of music and data CDs regardless of any copy protection measures. ...
CloneDVD is a proprietary DVD cloning software, developed by Elaborate Bytes, that can be used to make 1:1 identical copies of any DVD movie not copy-protected (for this reason it is often used in conjunction with AnyDVD, a tool that disables any protection). ...
Nero Burning ROM is a popular optical disc authoring program for Microsoft Windows and Linux by Nero AG, formerly Ahead Software. ...
Disk Utility is the name of a utility created by Apple for performing disk-related tasks in Mac OS X. These tasks include: the creation of disk images; mounting, unmounting, and ejecting disks (including both hard disks, removable media and disk images); enabling or disabling journaling; verifying a disks...
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Disco is an application for Apples Mac OS X developed by Austin Sarner, Jasper Hauser and Jason Harris. ...
K3b is a free software CD and DVD authoring application for GNU/Linux and other Unix-like operating systems designed for KDE. It provides a graphical user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio CD from a set of audio files or copying a CD...
X-CD-Roast is a CD authoring software, a front-end GUI for cdrtools The X-CD-Roast at SourceForge Categories: | | ...
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Diagram of the relationships between several Unix-like systems A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification. ...
For CDs containing Red Book CD audio, classified as multi-track CDs (data or audio on the first track, data or audio on any subsequent tracks), a CD image is required, as CD audio cannot be copied directly via the standard Windows, Macintosh or Linux interfaces. This is because CD audio is physically imprinted on the surface of the disc in the form of pits and holes, much like the grooves on a vinyl record. For example, a computer game containing the game's data on the first track of the CD, but the game's music soundtrack in Red Book CD-audio format on following tracks, would require a CD image to retain the CD-audio. If a single-track image format like .ISO is used, then only the data will be retained and no music would be heard in the game. Red Book is the standard for audio CDs (Compact Disc Digital Audio system, or CDDA). ...
Restoration An image file, once created is a form of compressed archive, containing all the information needed to replicate the original media, its structure and its physical layout on the relevant device, usually in one file. As such, the most common uses of such an image are either to be expanded onto a suitable physical device (another hard drive or burned onto another CD/DVD) to replicate the original, or if the structural information is not required, programs such as ISOBuster and WinRAR which handle file compression generally, can uncompress them to their original contents. In the latter case the structural and layout information is not reproduced. WinRAR is a shareware file archiver and data compression utility by Eugene Roshal. ...
Uses of disk images
Data storage An ordinary backup program only backs up the files it can access; boot information and files locked by the operating system (such as those in use at the time of the backup) may not be saved. A full disk image contains all these, faithfully replicating all data. For this reason, it is commonly used for backing up disks with operating systems, or bootable CDs and DVDs. In computing, booting (booting up) is a bootstrapping process that starts operating systems when the user turns on a computer system. ...
// An operating system (OS) is the software that manages the sharing of the resources of a computer. ...
In computing, booting is a bootstrapping process that starts operating systems when the user turns on a computer system. ...
CD may stand for: Compact Disc Canadian Forces Decoration Cash Dispenser (at least used in Japan) CD LPMud Driver Centrum-Demokraterne (Centre Democrats of Denmark) Certificate of Deposit České Dráhy (Czech Railways) Chad (NATO country code) Chalmers Datorförening (computer club of the Chalmers University of Technology) a 1960s...
Size comparison: A 12 cm Sony DVD+RW and a 19 cm Dixon Ticonderoga pencil. ...
Software distribution A common use of disk images is for distribution of large programs or software systems over the internet. Installation disks and LiveCDs for operating systems such as Linux or BSD systems are typically available as .ISO images. Installation floppy disks or CD-ROMs are stored as disk image files, transferred over the internet, and burned or copied onto actual disks by end users. Gnoppix 0. ...
// An operating system (OS) is the software that manages the sharing of the resources of a computer. ...
This article is about operating systems that use the Linux kernel. ...
Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD, sometimes called Berkeley Unix) is the Unix derivative distributed by the University of California, Berkeley, starting in the 1970s. ...
A floppy disk is a data storage device that is composed of a disk of thin, flexible (floppy) magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangular plastic shell. ...
Disk images, most often .ISO or .BIN/.CUE files, are also popular for peer-to-peer file sharing of software. A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is a network that relies on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively few servers. ...
File sharing is the activity of making files available to other users for download over the Internet, but also over smaller networks. ...
Rapid deployment of clone systems Large enterprises often need to buy or replace new computer systems in large numbers. Installing operating system and programs in to each of them one by one requires a lot of time and effort and has a significant possibilty of human error. Therefore, system administrators use disk imaging to quickly clone the fully-prepared software environment of a reference system. This method saves time and effort and allows administrators to focus on unique distinctions that each system must bear.
Universal archive formats As images are unaffected by the filing system or contents of the original data source, and most operating systems allow disk images to be mounted as if they were physical discs, image formats such as .ISO may be used as a universal archive format. See File system for the terms usage in computing. ...
Disk storage is a group of data storage mechanisms for computers; data are transferred to planar surfaces or disks for temporary or permanent storage. ...
Virtual disks Another common use is to provide virtual disk drive space to be used by emulators (e.g., QEMU) and virtual machines. This can prevent the CD from getting damaged. It can also reduce bulk when one wishes to carry the contents of the CD along with oneself: one can store disk images to a relatively lightweight and bootable storage device which has a higher storage capacity than that of a CD (e.g., a USB keydrive). DosBox emulates the familiar command line interface of DOS. An emulator duplicates (provide an emulation of) the functions of one system with a different system, so that the second system behaves like (and appears to be) the first system. ...
It has been suggested that Qemu-Launcher be merged into this article or section. ...
In computer science, a virtual machine is software that creates a virtualized environment between the computer platform and its operating system, so that the end user can operate software on an abstract machine. ...
In computing, booting is a bootstrapping process that starts operating systems when the user turns on a computer system. ...
A USB keydrive, shown with a US quarter coin for scale. ...
Emulation also provides a performance boost, as hard disks transfer data at much higher rates than optical disk drives. Console emulators, such as ePSXe, and many other emulators that read from CD/DVD, are able to read ISO/BIN (and other similar formats) instead of running directly from the CD drive, obtaining better performance. A console emulator is a program that allows a computer to emulate a video game console. ...
Enhanced PSX Emulator most known as ePSXe is an emulator of the PlayStation video game console. ...
Another reason for some people is that CD/DVD drives are noisy, a virtual disk on a hard disk is already a lot less noisy, and a USB stick is silent.
Formats An image is saved as a file, which for a full CD or system disk may be quite large (600 MB to several GB). This file can be saved onto a hard drive, CD, DVD or other media, for later use. ReBoot character, see Megabyte (ReBoot). ...
This article is about the unit of measurement. ...
Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ...
Images of CD-ROMs most often carry the filename extension .ISO, referring to the ISO 9660 file system commonly used on such disks. The .ISO format is the most common format for Linux distributions and other disk images distributed over the internet, but it is not a multi-track image format and thus cannot be used for Audio CDs. Other common CD image formats are .NRG (Nero Burning ROM's proprietary format), .BIN/.CUE, .MDF/.MDS (Alcohol 120%'s proprietary format), .DAA (PowerISO's proprietary format), and .CCD/.IMG/.SUB (CloneCD's proprietary format). All of these support multi-track CDs. The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ...
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ISO 9660, a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization, defines a file system for CD-ROM media. ...
A Linux distribution, often simply distribution or distro, is a member of the Linux family of Unix-like operating systems comprising the Linux kernel, the non-kernel parts of the GNU operating system, and assorted other software. ...
Red Book is the standard for audio CDs (Compact Disc Digital Audio system, or CDDA). ...
Nero Burning ROM is a popular optical disc authoring program for Microsoft Windows and Linux by Nero AG, formerly Ahead Software. ...
Alcohol 120% is an optical disc authoring program and disk image emulator created by Alcohol Soft. ...
Direct Access Archive, or DAA, is a proprietary file format invented by PowerISO Computing, Inc. ...
PowerISO is a computer program used to create, open, mount, compress, and encrypt ISO files. ...
CloneCD is a proprietary optical disc authoring software that makes copies of music and data CDs regardless of any copy protection measures. ...
Disk images can either be compressed using some type of compression algorithm like LZW, or uncompressed ("raw"). In computer science, data compression or source coding is the process of encoding information using fewer bits, or information units, thanks to specific encoding schemes. ...
LZW (Lempel-Ziv-Welch) is an implementation of a lossless data compression algorithm created by Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv. ...
.ISO -
A .ISO file is a disk image of an ISO 9660 file system. The term ISO image is also used informally to refer to any optical disk image, even if the disk uses another file system, such as UDF. The format is used by most CD/DVD authoring utilities. .ISO files may be created from existing physical media or from files and folders on a computer. .ISO images can be mounted in "virtual drives" which emulate physical hardware, or burned to CDs or DVDs. .ISO image may contain only single data track of a single session of a disk (which means multitrack or multisession disks cannot be stored as ISO image). This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
ISO 9660, a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization, defines a file system for CD-ROM media. ...
It has been suggested that Crash counting be merged into this article or section. ...
In computing, sound reproduction, and video, an optical disc is flat, circular, usually polycarbonate disc whereon data is stored. ...
The Universal Disk Format (UDF) is a format specification of a file system for storing files on optical media. ...
In computing, CD authoring or DVD authoring is the process of recording source material—video, audio or other data—onto a compact disc or DVD in a particular format. ...
Mounting, in computer science, is the process of making a file system ready for use by the operating system, typically by reading certain index data structures from storage into memory ahead of time. ...
A virtual drive is a term used with respect to computers when a drive is emulated in some fashion. ...
.ISO files are often used to distribute large programs or software systems over the internet. Operating systems such as Linux or BSD systems installation disks and LiveCDs are typically available as .ISO images. The format is also popular for peer-to-peer file sharing of pirated commercial software. // An operating system (OS) is the software that manages the sharing of the resources of a computer. ...
This article is about operating systems that use the Linux kernel. ...
Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD, sometimes called Berkeley Unix) is the Unix derivative distributed by the University of California, Berkeley, starting in the 1970s. ...
Gnoppix 0. ...
A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is a network that relies on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively few servers. ...
File sharing is the activity of making files available to other users for download over the Internet, but also over smaller networks. ...
On Mac OS X, ISO images often have the .cdr extension. Mac OS X (IPA: ) is a line of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ...
.IMG .IMG is the filename extension usually used for the disk image of floppy disks, optical media and hard disks. A .IMG file contains a raw dump of the content of a disk. First popularized by the DOS-based programs HD-Copy (for hard drives) and DiskDupe (for floppy disks) and now utilized by GNU RaWrite2 and WinRaWrite, the .IMG format is a handy way to archive a floppy disk completely, including bootable ones. Look up Dump in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
This article is about the family of closely related operating systems for the IBM PC compatible platform. ...
The GNU logo, drawn by Etienne Suvasa The GNU Project was announced in 1983 by Richard Stallman. ...
RAWRITE2 is a floppy image file writer/creator distributed under version 2. ...
RaWrite is a DOS program that writes a disk image file to a floppy disk. ...
In computing, booting is a bootstrapping process that starts operating systems when the user turns on a computer system. ...
The img extension was also used by the Macintosh application ShrinkWrap by Aladdin Systems (now Allume Systems), for Mac OS 9 and older, however this Macintosh format is not compatible with the .IMG format used on Windows and it stores metadata in the resource fork.
Some newer software, like WinImage, supports a zipped version of the format, which uses the .IMZ extension, and a newer extension .IMA. The difference between .IMA and .IMG is however, unknown. .IMG files are frequently used on Mac OS X to store images of optical disks. WinImage is a disk formatting application originally created by Gilles Vollant Software. ...
The ZIP file format is a popular data compression and archival format. ...
.BIN/.CUE -
Main article: Cue sheet (computing) The .BIN/.CUE image file format was developed by Jeff Arnold for the CDRWin program. An image consists of two files which contain binary data and metadata, respectively. The filenames typically match (e.g. image.bin and image.cue). Cue Sheet in Notepad A cue sheet, or cue file, is an ASCII (plain text) file that specifies how the tracks of a compact disc should be laid out. ...
A Hexdump of a JPEG image. ...
Metadata is data about data. ...
The .BIN file contains an exact copy of all data stored on an optical disk in raw, unprocessed form. For this reason, some programs use the .RAW suffix for these files. The file contains all data stored on the original disk - not only its files and folders, but also system-specific information such as boot loaders, volume attributes, error correction codes and other metadata on the disk itself. Of the 2352 bytes in each CD sector, only 2048 contain user data; the additional 304 bytes per sector primarily contain error correction information. Other formats, such as .ISO, do not store all this (mostly redundant) information, resulting in a smaller file. The .BIN format is useful for exotic disks, such as those containing multiple tracks or mixed track types (e.g audio & data), and for non-PC CDs (e.g. PSX, VCD, Mac). In computing, sound reproduction, and video, an optical disc is flat, circular, usually polycarbonate disc whereon data is stored. ...
In computing, booting (booting up) is a bootstrapping process that starts operating systems when the user turns on a computer system. ...
Introduction and Definition In the context of computer operating systems, volume is the term used to describe a single accessible storage area with a single filesystem, typically (though not necessarily) resident on a single partition of a hard disk. ...
The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ...
PSX may stand for: PSX (DVR), a PlayStation 2-based digital video recorder PlayStation, known early in development as the PlayStation EXperimental Professional Services Expo, a training conference and exposition held by the General Services Administration Categories: | ...
VCD can stand for: Video CD Voice command device Value Change Dump (IEEE 1364 Verilog) Value-Centered Design This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ...
The .CUE file is a "cue sheet" that describes the data stored in the .BIN file. The .CUE file is a plain text file. A typical .CUE file is as follows: Cue Sheet in Notepad A cue sheet, or cue file, is an ASCII (plain text) file that specifies how the tracks of a compact disc should be laid out. ...
Image:ASCII fullsvg There are 95 printable ASCII characters, numbered 32 to 126. ...
FILE "IMAGE.BIN" BINARY TRACK 01 MODE1/2352 INDEX 01 00:00:00 The file would be saved as IMAGE.CUE to match the file name prefix of IMAGE.BIN.
Images in the .BIN/.CUE format can be either burned on a disk using software which supports the format directly, or split into individual track files (in .ISO, .WAV format) using software like BinChunker (bchunk). The track files can then be written on a disk or used as is.
Apple disk image -
For Macintosh computers, disk images have been available as a feature of the operating system since before System 7. Mounting a compatible disk image is achieved by double-clicking (opening) the image file. The archived volume is then available as a normal disk volume, indistinguishable at first glance from a physical volume. Modern Apple disk images for Mac OS X typically end in .DMG. Using NetBoot, client computers can start up over a network from a server-based disk image that contains system software. The default handler for disk images in Mac OS X is DiskImageMounter. Images may be created with Disk Utility in Mac OS X and with Disk Copy in older versions of the Mac OS. Mac OS X natively supports .dmg, .toast, Windows .img .mds images if renamed .iso, along with historical Mac OS disk image formats. Furthermore Disk Utility can produce .iso files. They will be named .cdr, but they can be renamed .iso and opened on other platforms.[1] Image File history File links Apple_Disk_Image. ...
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The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ...
System 7 (codenamed Big Bang) was a version of Mac OS, the operating system of the Apple Macintosh computer. ...
Mouse properties in GNOME, with a setting for double-click speed A double-click is the act of pressing a computer mouse button twice quickly without moving the mouse. ...
Mac OS X (IPA: ) is a line of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ...
A file with the extension . ...
NetBoot is a technology from Apple that enables New World ROM Macs to boot from a network. ...
DiskImageMounter is the utility that handles mounting disk images in Mac OS X. Like BOMArchiveHelper it has no GUI when double-clicked, in fact doing so does nothing. ...
Disk Utility is the name of a utility created by Apple for performing disk-related tasks in Mac OS X. These tasks include: the creation of disk images; mounting, unmounting, and ejecting disks (including both hard disks, removable media and disk images); enabling or disabling journaling; verifying a disks...
Disk Utility application icon Disk Utility is the name of a utility for performing disk-related tasks in Mac OS X. These tasks include: the creation of disk images; mounting, unmounting, and ejecting disks (including both hard disks, removable media and disk images); enabling or disabling journaling; verifying a disk...
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This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
Disk Utility is the name of a utility created by Apple for performing disk-related tasks in Mac OS X. These tasks include: the creation of disk images; mounting, unmounting, and ejecting disks (including both hard disks, removable media and disk images); enabling or disabling journaling; verifying a disks...
Windows Imaging Format -
The Windows Imaging Format (WIM) is a file-based disk image format. ...
Other Imaging Formats Other hard disk image formats include VMWare .vmdk, Microsoft .vhd, and Symantec .v2i.
See also This is a list of formats used by Archiving software in archiving and data compression. ...
A boot image is the sequence of bits on the boot device that interface with computer hardware - usually includes operating system, utilities and diagnostics, boot and data recovery information. ...
In computing, booting is a bootstrapping process that starts operating systems when the user turns on a computer system. ...
Disk cloning is a category of software which copies the contents of one computer hard disk to another. ...
A disk image emulator is computer software designed to emulate a disk image, usually of a CD or DVD, on a local hard drive. ...
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In Unix-like operating systems, a loop device, loopback device, vnd (vnode disk), or lofi (loopback file interface) is a device node that represents a regular file. ...
Mini Image is a CD or DVD image file in a format that fakes the disks content to bypass copy protection. ...
A ROM image, or simply ROM, is a computer file which contains a copy of the data from a read-only memory chip, often from a video game cartridge, a computers firmware, or from an arcade games main board. ...
This is a list of optical disc authoring software. ...
References "Disk Imaging: A Vital Step in Data Recovery"- This white paper describes disk-level issues that must be handled by any disk imaging tool intended for data recovery. |
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