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Undisker

Developed by	Undisker Technologies
Latest release	1.6.0.67 / 14 May 2008
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Type	Disk image management (HDD, CD/DVD)
License	shareware
Website	www.undisker.com

Undisker is a computer program which works with disk images of hard disks (FAT and NTFS file systems) and CD/DVD images (ISO, CUE/BIN, CCD/IMG - CDFS filesystem and UDF filesystem). Produced by Undisker Technologies in Wiesloch, Germany.

[edit] Release history

• Version 1.6 (released September 2007)
  • supports UDF
  • Vista compatibility
  • new protection system (Vista-compatible)
• Version 1.5 (released September 2006)
  • supports NTFS
  • improved support for multisession CDs
  • CD/DVD recording functionality
• Version 1.4 (from beta testing program, no official information available)
  • New engine
  • support for multisession CDs
  • handle damaged CD/DVD volumes
  • Raw mode (no filesystem parsing)
• Version 1.3 (from beta testing program, no official information available)
  • Improved engine
  • multisession CDs
  • CD/DVD recording functionality
• Version 1.2 (released September 2003)
  • Bugfixing (supports unicode and SPTI)
  • file associations
  • command line parameters
• Version 1.1 (released September 2001)
  • Bugfixing and additional floppy formats
• Version 1.0 (released May 2001)
  • Reintroduced for Windows

[edit] Historical releases

(Unofficial information) A very first version of Undisker was a small DOS utility, developed for extracting OS/2 disk images and fixpacks. Originally it was written by Oleg Akopov on Turbo Pascal and distributed over FidoNet as Freeware. Known versions:

• Version 1.0 (as "DSKMan" - ???)
  • FAT disk images
  • IBM XDF DSK-1 Format supported
• Version 2.0 alfa (January 1996, distributed by 2:5061/7@FIDOnet)
  • a Norton Commander like GUI
  • support for DiskDupe (DDI) image formats
• Version 3.0 beta5 (June 1996)
  • First stable release
  • disk image format described in DEF-file, modifiable
• Version 4.0 beta2 (January 1997)
  • Customizable GUI
  • FAT32 supported
• Version 5.0 alfa (1998-?)
  • announced in local echomail of region 2:5061 in 1998, but seems to be never released

[edit] See also

• List of ISO image software