System/CD And DVD Tools
shareware ($50}
Ashampoo Burning Studio
Ashampoo Burning Studio is a complete and powerful disc burning suite that also satisfies advanced users with all the tweaking features you expect from less accessible programs.
Ashampoo Burning Studio 9 is a major update that improves almost every aspect of the program, adding many new features and capabilities in every part of the program. The biggest new feature of Ashampoo Burning Studio 9 is the Movie Editor, which adds powerful video editing and DVD interface building capabilities to the program....
freeware
CDBurnerXP Pro
CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.
shareware ($30}
UltraISO
UltraISO is a powerful and easy-to-use utility that can extract, create, edit, and convert CD/DVD image files. It can directly edit ISO files, make images from CD/DVD-ROMs, or create new one from files and folders on your computer. You have the option to make bootable CDs. In addition, UltraISO can convert nearly all known CD/DVD images to ISO, BIN/CUE, Nero (.NRG), or CloneCD (.CCD/.IMG/.SUB) format.
freeware
Virtual CloneDrive
Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD/DVD drive, however it exists only virtually. Image files generated with CloneDVD or CloneCD can be mounted onto a virtual drive from your hard-disk or from a network drive and used in the same manner as inserting them into a normal CD/DVD drive.
open source
InfraRecorder
InfraRecorder is a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. It offers a wide range of powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.
freeware
BurnAware
BurnAware allows you to easily perform the most common disc burning tasks: write to all CD/DVD media types, including Blue-Ray; write Audio CDs and DVD-Video files; create and burn disc images; write multi-session discs and much more.
BurnAware Free is a free CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc burning software. It is ideal for users with basic disc burning needs as backup, creating data, audio, video discs and burning disc images. Free, easy to set up and maintain, it enables you to save your files to disc quickly...
freeware
CDBurnerXP
CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.
shareware ($49}
CloneDVD
CloneDVD extracts, transcodes and writes any orginal DVD title you like to a single recordable DVD. Be impressed by the program speed and the amazing image quality of the movie copy. A special transcoding technology compresses your choice of DVD title with your selected audio and subtitle streams to one DVD Recordable. A Video Preview plays an overview of all selectable DVD titles. It is very easy to use. The unique Film Strip will guide you step by step through all settings - very suitable for beginners.
freeware
CDCheck
CDCheck is an application that checks your CD-ROM and tells you which files are corrupted. It can also do a binary compare with copy on disk. It is especially useful for testing old CDs or just burned CDs to see if they are OK. If some files are corrupted that means it would be wise to move your data to some other media or copy it on another CD.
freeware
Explore&Burn
Explore&Burn is an intuitive and easy to use freeware CD/DVD burner, integrated with Windows Explorer. It is the easiest and fastest way to burn files and ISO images on your computer to CD or DVD. Explore&Burn is extremely lightweight comparing to other bloated burning applications today on the software market and does just what you need.
shareware ($35}
CopyToDVD
CopyToDVD is a new generation tool to backup all your music and data files. It contains several methods to build your CDs or DVDs, such as integration to shell, user friendly frontend or FileDepot technology. With a few clicks you can burn files, folders, pictures, and music (MP3/Ogg Vorbis/WMA) to CD/DVD. It uses a smart data analyzer which suggest the best output format (audio CD, DVD Video).
freeware
FinalBurner
FinalBurner is a freeware alternative to expensive CD and DVD burners. This application enables you to create data, audio, DVD disks and burn them onto any type of media, such as CD R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD DL. You can also create an ISO image of a disk. It combines all the elements of a professional CD recorder, delivered with a convenient user interface that pleases the eye. It is designed without any extraneous features. It restricts the complex process of CD recording to a few mouse clicks,...
shareware ($30}
Magic ISO Maker
Magic ISO Maker is a powerful and easy CD/DVD image file edit tool. It can open, create, edit, and extract CD/DVD image files, and convert bin to iso and back. Make image files from CD-ROM or hard disk, and handle bootable information at meanwhile. It also can convert BIN or any other format file created by CD burning software or virtual CD-ROM driver software to standard ISO format. It has the ability to create ISO image file. You can directly add, delete, and rename files or folder in CD image file(s)....
shareware ($30}
BlindWrite
BlindWrite extracts all the characteristics of your media to your harddrive to reproduce a working copy. It allows you to protect your investments against damages caused by children, scratches or problems caused by frequent usage. As a side effect of the used technology, this product can also backup some protected media. It is illegal to copy media you don't own! Consult your legal advisor first. This Product creates 1:1 copies, it is maybe not the most appropriate for DVD movie copies as the source is...