DiscImageChef v3.4.99.0

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

Copyright © 2011-2017 Natalia Portillo claunia@claunia.com

You can see statistics and device reports at http://discimagechef.claunia.com

Usage

DiscImageChef.exe

And read help.

Works under any operating system where there is Mono or .NET Framework. Tested with Mono 3.0.

Features

• 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

Supported disk image formats

• 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
• 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
• CPCEMU Disk file and Extended Disk File
• CopyQM
• IBM SaveDskF
• DiscJuggler images
• Dreamcast GDI
• MAME Compressed Hunks of Data (CHD)
• 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
• QEMU Copy-On-Write versions 1, 2 and 3 (QCOW and QCOW2)
• QEMU Enhanced Disk (QED)
• Sector by sector copies of Microsoft's DMF floppies
• TeleDisk (without compression)
• VMware VMDK and COWD 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)

Supported partitioning schemes

• Acorn Linux and RISCiX 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
• 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

Supported file systems for read-only operations

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

Supported file systems for identification and information only

• 3DO Opera file system
• Acorn Advanced Disc Filing 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
• B-tree file system (btrfs)
• BSD Fast File System (FFS) / Unix File System (UFS)
• BSD Unix File System 2 (UFS2)
• BeOS filesystem
• Coherent UNIX file system
• Commodore 1540/1541/1571/1581 filesystems
• Cram file system
• DEC Files-11 (only checked with On Disk Structure 2, ODS-2)
• ECMA-67: 130mm Flexible Disk Cartridge Labelling and File Structure for Information Interchange
• Flash-Friendly File System (F2FS)
• 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
• 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 file system
• NILFS2
• Professional File System
• QNX4 and QNX6 filesystems
• Reiser file systems
• SGI XFS
• SmartFileSystem
• SolarOS file system
• Squash 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
• Zettabyte File System (ZFS)

Supported checksums

• 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)

Supported filters

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

Changelog

See Changelog file.

To-Do

See TODO file.