It often happens that when you download a game, program or a whole disk with programs or an operating system, you crawl into the folder with the downloaded files and find unusual installation files with the extension .exe and not winrar or winzip archives in it, and some completely incomprehensible and unfamiliar files with a strange extension .mdf.
Do not worry and do not be alarmed, you have not become a victim of scammers and downloaded exactly what you need. The fact is that an mdf file is nothing more than a regular disk image. A disk image is a kind of full copy of a disk stored on a computer’s hard disk, convenient for quickly writing to a blank disk or for instant mounting on a virtual disk.
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If you want to create such a file, it will not be difficult if your disc burning program supports the “write to file” option. If not, you will have to download another program - Alcohol 120 or Alcohol 52.
They differ only in that the first requires a paid license key, and the second is absolutely free, but does not support the function of writing to disk. Having selected and downloaded the version of the program that is more suitable for you, install and run it. Select "create image", then select the files that you would like to have in the disk image, and start the creation. You can do the same with the whole disk located in your drive. As a result, you can get an exact copy of it.Mdf-file, like any other image file, is convenient because by creating it you can no longer suffer from the fact that some games refuse to run without a disk with a game in the drive - just mount the image on a virtual disk and the game is deceived. After all, a virtual disk in its parameters does not differ (except that it does not exist) from a regular CD or DVD-ROM, therefore the game “thinks” that everything is in order and starts up quietly.