They've improved on their product for over 11 years, since the first stable release on Feb 4, 2009. The program is good, functional, and reliable even for the free version. To be honest, considering they have sales fairly often and offer lifetime subscriptions, we can hardly fault them for wanting payment for their services. You would be surprised just how diverse the options available are. Everything from virtual Hard Disk Drives, TrueCrypt containers, dealing with iSCSI targets, and even connecting with mobile devices are at your disposal. The Pro or Ultra Editions have many more goodies. Regardless, you can purchase a full license at any time and upgrade to it from within the program itself. However, you can still burn an image to a disc, grab an image from a disc, or mount and use a virtual device well enough. Many of the more diverse and interesting options are locked from it, only available on paid versions of the software. The Lite version is bare-bones, to say the least. Generally, however, you're only going to choose between the Pro and the Lite (or free) version. There are several versions of Daemon Tools available depending on exactly what you need from it. Of course, the options that are available to you depend on which version you get. You can even recreate the damaged DVD by burning the subsequent 'image' you gathered from the original onto a new disc.īeyond that, there are a plethora of virtual devices you can create and utilize using this software. Many people have used it to preserve digital copies of old VHS or damaged DVDs they made or own. Having a digital copy on hand can help keep your records and memories intact. Simply put, DVDs or other disc types wear out eventually, gaining scratches and skips. The most immediately apparent is for posterity. There are a lot of potential uses, most of which go beyond this short review. We obviously do not recommend doing this. There are those who are eager to use software like this for piracy purposes. Let's address the elephant in the room first and get that out of the way at once. The program allows you to 'burn' data to discs, grab data from discs, mount virtual devices that otherwise would require hardware to perform - To summarize, this is not necessarily a photo editor. This can include anything from the complex menus and routines in an interactive DVD to an entire video game. When we say the word 'images' this does not mean photos, rather it is a large file that contains all the data within a disc. Daemon tools is a program designed to allow you to mount virtual images and interact with 'images'.

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