If you have a damaged CD or DVD which you need to recover data on and trying to copy data from Windows Explorer is not yielding successful results, a tool you might want to try is IsoPuzzle. Short Description: The goal of this program is to recover as much as possible data of damaged, bad burned or scratched CDs or DVDs. This version supports only data CDs and...

I’ve messed around with more than a few ISO extraction utilities, such as PowerISO, MagicISO and so on. Utilities like that do what they do very well, but you have to pay for it. And being the only real thing I need with an ISO utility is either to mount drive letters (ex: ISODisk, Daemon Tools, Virtual Clone Drive, etc.) or extract specific files from, I...

Rarely do I come across a utility that is absolutely ridiculously easy to use, is efficient and just plain works. ISODisk is one of them. ISODisk is so easy you’d think there would be more to it. This app simply mounts ISO images as drive letters, and creates ISOs from CDs or DVDs. There are no options in the software; it doesn’t need them. For any...

Yesterday I posted about archiving CD/DVDs to your hard drive for easy access and distribution. So now, what if you want to install from one of these? With the use of a tool I have referenced in the past, Virtual Clone Drive, here are simple instructions for installing from an ISO. Note: These instructions are intended to read by end users I distribute the zip...

As you have probably read many times on this site optical media (i.e. CD and DVDs), while reliable and cheap, doesn’t last forever. Because of this, it is a good idea to create copies of your optical media, particularly install CDs to your hard drive. The best choice for archiving these is to use ISO files. In addition to having a backup you can burn to CD...

Concerning a digital camera, ISO denotes how sensitive the image sensor is to the amount of light present. [hidepost=1] General rule of thumb: The lower the light, the higher the ISO should be. You can consider ISO the “eye” of the camera. To let in more light, move the ISO number setting up. For less light, have the number setting down. For example, if...