What's an
UIF Image
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Universal Image Format(UIF) is a
powerful compression image file format for
backuping CD/DVD. It is fast, reliable,
and has rich set of features which include
password-protected, data encryption, MD5
checksum support and much more. UIF can
not only contain the complete data of
CD/DVD just like ISO image, But UIF
also supports backuping multi-session CD/DVD,
Audio-CD, VCD, SVCD and DVD-Video.
What is the advantage to use
UIF instead of ISO Image, zip, rar and other
CD/DVD image to backup CD/DVD?
The first and important
advantage of using UIF is that can reduce the
size of image file, it saves both in the
compression and in the saving of disk sector
cluster, UIF is a compressed format, It
compresses raw CD/DVD data with high quality
compression-method. Second,
You can backup secret and
private CD/DVD using UIF. Especially,
It has the advantage to transfer CD/DVD through
the Internet. UIF provides both the
feature of password-protected for denying the
access from any unauthorized user and other
feature of data encryption for defeating any
sniffer and hacker.
Easy and Express to use UIF without restoring
and extracting. Unlike ZIP,RAR and other
compression archive, you don't have to extract
files and folders from UIF before you need to
use this files or folders. Just use virtual
CD/VD software like MagicDisc to mount UIF image
as virtual CD so that you can access all files
and folders in UIF image through this virtual CD
just like accessing your the original CD/DVD.
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