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Disc Image Chef (because "swiss-army-knife" is used too much)
Copyright © 2011-2018 Natalia Portillo <claunia@claunia.com>
Copyright © 2011-2019 Natalia Portillo <claunia@claunia.com>
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You can see statistics and device reports [here](https://www.discimagechef.app/Statistics.aspx)
You can see statistics and device reports [here](https://www.discimagechef.app/Stats)
DiscImageChef is a fully featured media dump management solution. You usually know media dumps
as disc images, disk images, tape images, etc.
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If you want to contribute in any way please read the [contributing guide](CONTRIBUTING.md).
Stable releases in [Github](https://github.com/discimagechef/DiscImageChef/releases).
CI beta builds [here](https://goo.gl/6dZPMq).
System requirements
===================
DiscImageChef should work under any operating system where there is [Mono](http://www.mono-project.com/)
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* 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 list and extract contents from supported filesystems
* 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
* Can dump media from ATA, ATAPI, SCSI, USB, FireWire and SDHCI drives (magnetic disks, optical discs, magnetoptical disks, flash devices, memory cards and tapes) to several supported image formats.
* Can convert between image formats.
* Include an opensource archival image format with compression and deduplication.
* Can create standard open XML metadata from existing images.
* Can measure readability and speed of media (same that can be dumped, MHDD style)
* Has an online database with drive capabilities, and can report the capabilities of any drive.
* Works on any operating system and architecture where Mono or .NET Framework is supported (drive access requires Windows, Linux or FreeBSD).
* Has a graphical interface (work in progress)
Feature requests
================
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Supported disk image formats (read-only)
========================================
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* CDRWin cue/bin cuesheets, including ones with ISOBuster extensions
* CisCopy disk image (aka DC-File, .DCF)
* CloneCD
* CopyTape
* DataPackRat's d2f/f2d disk image format ("WC DISK IMAGE")
* Digital Research DiskCopy
* DiscImageChef format
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Supported file systems for read-only operations
===============================================
* 3DO Opera file system
* Apple DOS file system
* Apple Lisa file system
* Apple Macintosh File System (MFS)
* CD-i file system
* CP/M file system
* High Sierra Format
* ISO9660, including Apple, Amiga, Rock Ridge, Joliet and Romeo extensions
* 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
* U.C.S.D Pascal file system
* Xbox filesystems
Supported file systems for identification and information only
==============================================================
* 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
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* BSD Fast File System (FFS) / Unix File System (UFS)
* BSD Unix File System 2 (UFS2)
* B-tree file system (btrfs)
* CD-i file system
* Coherent UNIX file system
* Commodore 1540/1541/1571/1581 filesystems
* Cram file system
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* 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/IBM High Performance File System (HPFS)
* Microsoft New Technology File System (NTFS)
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* UnixWare boot file system
* Veritas file system
* VMware file system (VMFS)
* Xbox filesystems
* Xenix file system
* Xia filesystem
* Zettabyte File System (ZFS)
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* SuperCardPro
## License
License
=======
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