DiscImageChef v4.0.99.0

Disc Image Chef (because "swiss-army-knife" is used too much)

Copyright © 2011-2018 Natalia Portillo claunia@claunia.com

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DiscImageChef is a fully featured media dump management solution. You usually know media dumps as disc images, disk images, tape images, etc.

With DiscImageChef you can analyze a media dump, extract files from it (for supported filesystems), compare two of them, create them from real media using the appropriate drive, create a sidecar metadata with information about the media dump, and a lot of other features that commonly would require you to use separate applications.

To see last changes, check the changelog. To see list of pending things to do, check the TODO list.

If you want to contribute in any way please read the contributing guide.

DiscImageChef should work under any operating system where there is Mono or .NET Framework. It has been tested using Mono 3.0 and .NET Framework 4.0. However recommended versions are Mono 5.0 and .NET Framework 4.6. .NET Core is untested.

DiscImageChef.exe

And read help.

Or read the wiki.

• Analyzes a disk image getting information about the disk itself and analyzes partitions and filesystems inside them
• Can checksum the disks (and if optical disc, separate tracks) user-data (tags and metadata coming soon)
• Can compare two disk images, even different formats, for different sectors and/or metadata
• Can list and extract contents from filesystems that support that
• Can read several disk image formats.
• Can read several known sector by sector formats with variable bytes per sector.
• Can read standard sector by sector copies for optical and magnetic discs with constant bytes per sector.
• Can verify sectors or disk images if supported by the underlying format

• Alcohol 120% Media Descriptor Structure (.MDS/.MDF)
• Any 512 bytes/sector disk image format (sector by sector copy, aka raw)
• Apple 2IMG (used with Apple // emulators)
• Apple Disk Archival/Retrieval Tool (DART)
• Apple DiskCopy 4.2
• Apple II nibble images (NIB)
• Apple New Disk Image Format (NDIF, requires Resource Fork)
• Apple Universal Disk Image Format (UDIF), including obsolete (previous than DiskCopy 6) versions
• Apridisk disk image formats (for ACT Apricot disks)
• Anex86 disk images (.FDI for floppies, .HDI for hard disks)
• BlindWrite 4 TOC files (.BWT/.BWI/.BWS)
• BlindWrite 5/6 TOC files (.B5T/.B5I and .B6T/.B6I)
• CDRDAO TOC sheets
• CDRWin cue/bin cuesheets, including ones with ISOBuster extensions
• CisCopy disk image (aka DC-File, .DCF)
• CPCEMU Disk file and Extended Disk File
• CopyQM
• Dave Dunfield IMD
• Digital Research DiskCopy
• DiscJuggler images
• Dreamcast GDI
• HD-Copy disk images
• IBM SaveDskF
• MAME Compressed Hunks of Data (CHD)
• MAXI Disk disk images (HDK)
• Microsoft VHDX
• Most known sector by sector copies of floppies with 128, 256, 319 and 1024 bytes/sector.
• Most known sector by sector copies with different bytes/sector on track 0.
• Nero Burning ROM (both image formats)
• Parallels Hard Disk Image (HDD) version 2
• Partclone disk images
• Partimage disk images
• QEMU Copy-On-Write versions 1, 2 and 3 (QCOW and QCOW2)
• QEMU Enhanced Disk (QED)
• Quasi88 disk images (.D77/.D88)
• Ray Arachelian's Disk IMage (.DIM)
• RS-IDE hard disk images
• Sector by sector copies of Microsoft's DMF floppies
• Spectrum floppy disk image (.FDI)
• T98 hard disk images (.THD)
• T98-Next hard disk images (.NHD)
• TeleDisk
• VMware VMDK and COWD images
• Virtual98 disk images
• Virtual PC fixed size, dynamic size and differencing (undo) disk images
• VirtualBox Disk Image (VDI)
• X68k DIM disk image files (.DIM)
• XDF disk images (as created by IBM's XDFCOPY)

• Acorn Linux and RISCiX partitions
• ACT Apricot partitions
• Amiga Rigid Disk Block (RDB)
• Apple Partition Map
• Atari AHDI and ICDPro
• BSD disklabels
• BSD slices inside MBR
• DEC disklabels
• DragonFly BSD 64-bit disklabel
• EFI GUID Partition Table (GPT)
• Human68k (Sharp X68000) partitions table
• Microsoft/IBM/Intel Master Boot Record (MBR)
• Minix subpartitions inside MBR
• NEC PC9800 partitions
• NeXT disklabel
• Plan9 partition table
• Rio Karma partitions
• SGI volume headers
• Solaris slices inside MBR
• Sun disklabel
• UNIX VTOC and disklabel
• UNIX VTOC inside MBR
• Xbox 360 hard coded partitions
• XENIX partition table

• Apple DOS file system
• Apple Lisa file system
• Apple Macintosh File System (MFS)
• CP/M file system
• U.C.S.D Pascal file system

• 3DO Opera file system
• Acorn Advanced Disc Filing System
• Alexander Osipov DOS (AO-DOS for Electronika BK-0011) file system
• Amiga Fast File System v2, untested
• Amiga Fast File System, with international characters, directory cache and multi-user patches
• Amiga Original File System, with international characters, directory cache and multi-user patches
• Apple File System (preliminary detection until on-disk layout is stable)
• Apple Hierarchical File System (HFS)
• Apple Hierarchical File System+ (HFS+)
• Apple ProDOS / SOS file system
• AtheOS file system
• B-tree file system (btrfs)
• BSD Fast File System (FFS) / Unix File System (UFS)
• BSD Unix File System 2 (UFS2)
• BeOS filesystem
• CD-i file system
• Coherent UNIX file system
• Commodore 1540/1541/1571/1581 filesystems
• Cram file system
• DEC RT-11 file system
• DEC Files-11 (only checked with On Disk Structure 2, ODS-2)
• dump(8) (Old historic BSD, AIX, UFS and UFS2 types)
• ECMA-67: 130mm Flexible Disk Cartridge Labelling and File Structure for Information Interchange
• Flash-Friendly File System (F2FS)
• Fossil file system (from Plan9)
• HAMMER file system
• High Performance Optical File System (HPOFS)
• High Sierra Format
• HP Logical Interchange Format
• IBM Journaling File System (JFS)
• ISO9660
• Linux extended file system
• Linux extended file system 2
• Linux extended file system 3
• Linux extended file system 4
• Locus file system
• MicroDOS file system
• Microsoft 12-bit File Allocation Table (FAT12), including Atari ST extensions
• Microsoft 16-bit File Allocation Table (FAT16)
• Microsoft 32-bit File Allocation Table (FAT32), including FAT+ extension
• Microsoft Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT)
• Microsoft New Technology File System (NTFS)
• Microsoft/IBM High Performance File System (HPFS)
• Minix v2 file system
• Minix v3 file system
• NEC PC-Engine executable
• NEC PC-FX executable
• NILFS2
• OS-9 Random Block File
• Professional File System
• QNX4 and QNX6 filesystems
• Reiser file systems
• SGI Extent File System (EFS)
• SGI XFS
• SmartFileSystem
• SolarOS file system
• Squash file system
• UNICOS file system
• UNIX System V file system
• UNIX Version 7 file system
• Universal Disk Format (UDF)
• UnixWare boot file system
• VMware file system (VMFS)
• Veritas file system
• Xbox filesystems
• Xenix file system
• Xia filesystem
• Zettabyte File System (ZFS)

• Adler-32
• CRC-16
• CRC-32
• CRC-64
• Fletcher-16
• Fletcher-32
• MD5
• RMD160
• SHA-1
• SHA-2 (256, 384 and 512 bits)
• SpamSum (fuzzy hashing)

• Apple PCExchange (FINDER.DAT & RESOURCE.FRK)
• AppleDouble
• AppleSingle
• BZip2
• GZip
• LZip
• MacBinary I, II, III
• XZ

These disk image formats cannot be read, but their contents can be checksummed on sidecar creation

• DiscFerret
• KryoFlux STREAM
• SuperCardPro