CD’s and DVD’s are the most convenient storage medium for installers because of its large storage capacity and cheap price. Also CD’s and DVD’s are easy to reproduce especially when you ‘re copying free installers and distributing it to your friends and colleagues. All you need is your CD/DVD ROM and a program that allows you to create an image of the installer, then burn this image file onto an empty disc. It seems there’s no other program in the market today that handles image files as well as that PowerISO.

PowerISO 4.7 offers basic features for manipulating image files like create, edit, and compress. There are also advanced features available like encrypt, and the ability to mount image files to a virtual drive. The program is compatible with the majority of image file formats available today like ISO and BIN. The program is very easy to use since it provides a drag and drop environment and allows copy and paste from clipboard. You can also create bootable ISO or extract information from a bootable ISO using the program. Its also capable of converting other image formats to standard ISO format. Another useful feature is compression of image files to save space from your hard disk. Its encryption feature is very useful in protecting your image files from being opened by others.

Though CD burning software already has the feature to create an image file from a disc, PowerISO offers much more robust image processing abilities. In fact, it’s one of the best image file processing tools available in the market today because of its unique features that competitors fail to provide.

Current version of PowerISO is at 4.7. PowerISO is commercial software from http://www.poweriso.com with a price of $29.95 but a trial version is available for free download for those who want to evaluate the product first before purchasing.

More info is available at PowerISO

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