DAEMON Tools is an advanced application for Microsoft Windows which provides one of the best optical media emulation in the industry. DAEMON Tools enables you to use your CD/DVD images as if they were already burned to CD/DVD.

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Changes in DT 4.30.4 compared to the previous version 4.30.3:

What's new:
- Windows 7 beta supporting (SPTD 1.58);
- Protected images creation: Password field on Disc Imaging dialog;
- Compressed images creation: Compress option on Disc Imaging dialog;
- Image Catalog item was moved to the first level of Main Menu;
- mdf-file type association option;
- Languages updates.

Bugs fixed:
- Devices speeds detection;
- Lite-ON DHXXXXX drives supporting;
- Large RAID volumes issue;
- Mounting/converting B6T DVD images;
- Setup improving: Unicode supporting;
- Some minor GUI bugs.

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Using ISOMaker.dll plugin you can make ISO images from CD/DVD discs (inserted in physical CD/DVD/HDDVD/BluRay drives) or from MDS and other images (inserted in virtual drives).

How to use:

In order to use this plugin, please

1. close DT Lite (do a right click with the mouse on DT Lite tray icon and press on "Exit");
2. copy ISOMaker.dll file to your DT Lite plugins folder, for example: "C:\Program Files\DAEMON Tools Lite\Plugins";
3. start DT Lite again and you will see in DT Panel one more new button - CD disc symbol with three letters "ISO";
4. make sure that you have "Enable DT Panel" option turned ON (do a right click with the mouse on DT Lite tray icon and there you should select a checkbox in Options->Enable DT Panel).

SPTD stands for SCSI Pass Through Direct layer. Basically SPTD is similar to other access layers used by other programs who provide access to storage devices but it has a lot more features that make this interface unique.
SPTD EULA: http://www.duplexsecure.com/download/SPTD-159.rtf

Issues addressed:
- fixed compatibility with some applications (eg. Starburn), on new builds of Windows Vista and Windows 7.

SPTD stands for SCSI Pass Through Direct layer. Basically SPTD is similar to other access layers used by other programs who provide access to storage devices but it has a lot more features that make this interface unique.
SPTD EULA: http://www.duplexsecure.com/download/SPTD-159.rtf

Issues addressed:
- fixed compatibility with some applications (eg. Starburn), on new builds of Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Decent SHA1 and MD5 checker for one or two files. The program is an utility to calculate and verify the MD5 checksum of all DAEMON Tools files (DAEMON Tools downloads) and SPTD files (Duplex Secure downloads).

A fast and easy-to-use calculator that allows to compute message digests, checksums and HMACs for files, as well as for text and hex strings. It offers a choice of 13 of the most popular hash and checksum algorithms for calculations.

Major Features:

- Support of 12 well-known and documented hash and checksum algorithms: MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2( 256, 384, 512), RIPEMD-160, PANAMA, TIGER, ADLER32, CRC32.
- Support of a custom hash algorithm (MD4-based) used in eDonkey and eMule applications.
- Support of 2 modes of calculations: HASH/CHECKSUM and HMAC.
- Support of 3 input data formats: files, text strings and hex strings.
- Work with large size files. (Tested on file sizes up to 15 GB).
- Drag-and-drop support.
- Quick and simple installation.
- Calculates hash/checksum and HMAC for files of any type: music, audio, sound, video, image, icon, text, compression, etc., with the extensions: .mp3, .wav, .avi, .mpg, .midi, .mov, .dvd, .ram, .zip, .rar, .ico, .gif, .pif, .pic, .tif, .tiff, .txt, .doc, .pdf, .wps, .dat, .dll, .hex, .bin, .iso, .cpp, .dss, .par, .pps, .cue, .ram, .md5, .sfv, etc.