ISO Recorder: it’s better than sliced bread, and free
June 24, 2007 MSI Development, PC Tips, Reviews No CommentsEvery once in a while, a piece of software arrives into the world that is well-written, simple-to-use, and efficient. Now, software that’s 1, or even 2 of those things, appears all the time, but hitting the trifecta is a differnet matter.
ISO Recorder is one of those rare pieces of software. Designed by Alex Feinman, the program (it’s actually just a .dll) does one thing, and one thing well. After you install it, any iso image has the default option to burn it to disk (in the Vista version, this includes DVD images). The install of the software itself is nearly instant, on account of its small file size. There’s no annoying start menu crap or desktop shortcuts to deal with–just a nicely associated .dll ready to burn images.
I needed to burn two images yesterday, one an ISO of the MSDN version of XP, and the other a BartPE boot CD. The MSDN ISO is 600MB, so when the status bar on ISO Recorder started moving fluidly from 0% to 100%, completing in less than a minute, I knew something was wrong, especially since the blank disk I’d used had clearly seen some abuse. Not the case. I popped the disk back in, and the Windows install screen came up. I then used the disk with PE Builder, which ripped the disk cleanly twice in a row. The image created with Bart PE (around 160MB) burned in seconds.
I love ISO Recorder. And it’s free, so give Alex some support and donate through the PayPal link on his pages.