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Create an ISO Image

You have installed Daemon Tools Lite on your computer from Part 2: Install Daemon Tool Lite. Now I will show you how to create an ISO image file from a movie DVD. You can see the index of this series at Working with ISO Image and MDF/MDS using Daemon Tools Lite, Part 1: Introduction

Step-by-step

1. Right-click on the Daemon Tools Lite icon in the notification area (system tray) and select DAEMON Tools Panel.
   
2. The panel appears upper the Windows task bar. Click on the Disc Imaging icon. The icon which has a small diskette over a disc.
   
3. On Disc Imaging, you can select a device or drive that you want as a source.
   
4. Next, insert a DVD movie or any disc that you want to create an ISO image and click Refresh. In this example, you will see the Reading Speed is 10.0x (13850 KB/Sec) and Device is a DVD-ROM.
   
5. You can change the destination image file by click on the browse button.
   
6. Select file name and folder that you want save the image file. Also, ensure that Save as type is Standard ISO images (*.iso).
   Note: You can also save to an another type (Media Descriptor file – *.mds) which I will show in the next part.
   
7. Click Start to begin create an ISO image.
   
8. This step may takes some time depends on the reading speed of the device and how large is the source disc.
   
9. Now Disc Imaging has finished. In this example, it takes almost 8 minutes to create an ISO image from the DVD movie.
   
10. Open to the destination folder, you will see an ISO image file that has been created.
    
11. Next, I will show you how to create MDF/MDS files. See Part 4: Create MDF/MDS files