PowerISO (32-bit)

PowerISO is an excellent program for processing CD, DVD, and BD image files. It has a variety of features, such as opening, extracting, burning, generating, editing, compressing, encrypting, splitting, and converting ISO files. It also allows you to mount ISO files using an internal virtual drive. PowerISO 32bit can handle a variety of CD, DVD, and BD image formats, including ISO and BIN files, making it a complete solution for all of your ISO and disc image requirements.

Key Features

• Extensive support for CD, DVD, and BD-ROM image file formats, including ISO, BIN, NRG, CDI, DAA, and more.
• Notably, DAA files (Direct-Access-Archive) are advanced image formats with features like compression, password protection, and split volumes.
• Effortlessly open and extract ISO files with a single click.
• Burn ISO files to CD, DVD, or Blu-Ray discs using PowerISO's professional burning software. It supports the creation of Audio CDs, Data CDs, Data DVDs, Video DVDs, VCDs, and even Blu-Ray discs.
• Create Audio CDs from MP3, FLAC, APE, WMA, or BIN files.
• Rip Audio CDs to MP3, FLAC, APE, WMA, or BIN files.
• Generate ISO or BIN files from files on your hard disk or CD/DVD/BD discs.
• Directly edit ISO image files with PowerISO's intuitive interface.
• Mount ISO files using the internal virtual drive feature, allowing you to access popular disc image files effortlessly.
• Convert image files between ISO, BIN, and other formats. It supports converting various image file formats to standard ISO image files and also performs BIN to ISO conversions.
• Create bootable USB drives, enabling you to set up Windows using a USB drive.
• Make bootable ISO files and create bootable CDs/DVDs.
• Compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows.
• User-friendly interface with convenient features like shell integration, context menu support, drag-and-drop functionality, clipboard copy-paste, and more.

How To Use?

• Download and install PowerISO by going to the official website and downloading the version that is relevant to your operating system. Run the installer and follow the on-screen directions to finish the installation.
• After installation, start the application. You should see the main UI.
• Mount an image file: To mount a disk image file (such as ISO, BIN, or NRG) to a virtual drive, go to the "Tools" menu and select “Mount Image to Drive.”
• Alternatively, click the "Mount" button in the toolbar. Select the relevant image file from your computer and then click the "Open" button. It will set up a virtual drive and assign it a drive letter.
• Access the virtual drive: Once the image is mounted, open "My Computer" (or "This PC" in Windows 10) and navigate to the newly generated drive. It will appear as though you have inserted a physical disc into your computer.
• To extract files from a disk image, right-click the virtual drive in "My Computer" and choose "Open" or "Explore." You can then copy or extract the files to your preferred location on your computer.
• To make a disk image from a physical CD, DVD, or data on your computer, select the "Create" button from the toolbar. Choose the type of image you want to make (e.g., Data CD/DVD image, Audio CD image, etc.), then choose the source files or physical disk and customize the settings. Finally, click the "Save" button to generate the disk image file.
• To burn a disk image to a physical CD or DVD, click the "Burn" button in the toolbar. Choose the image file you wish to burn, the proper burning disk, and any necessary parameters, and click the "Burn" button to begin the burning process.
• Additional features: It includes a variety of extra functions, including the ability to modify disk images, convert image file types, create bootable USB devices, and more. To access these features, navigate via the menus and toolbar.

Supported Operating Systems

32-bit Windows: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10, and Windows 11.

64-bit Windows includes Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8 / 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows 11.

Supported Languages

It supports many languages, including English, Arabic, Armenian, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and Kazakh.

System Requirements

To run PowerISO, you need a computer system with the following specifications:

• Operating System: Microsoft Windows
• Processor: Intel Pentium 166MHz or higher
• Memory: 64MB or more
• Hard Disk Space: At least 10MB available

PROS

• Intuitive and user-friendly interface.
• Comprehensive disc image management features.
• Extensive format support for disc images.
• Efficient disc-burning capabilities.
• Secure and password-protected disc image creation.

CONS

• The installer contains ads. Be careful during the installation.
• No built-in support for converting disc images to VHD format.
• Demo version offers limited functionality.

Conclusion

Overall, PowerISO is a versatile software application for managing disk images and virtual drives. It enables you to mount disk image files on virtual drives, extract files from images, generate disk images from physical media or data, and burn images to CDs or DVDs. Other functions include image editing, format conversion, and the ability to create bootable USB devices.

Note: You can only create or edit image files that are less than 300MB in size.