Five Free CD and DVD Tools you can use (Tool Thursday)

In spite of the emergence of new technology in the form of HD or Blu-Ray, CDs and DVDs still hold supreme.

Here are five tools that you can use for either burning CD/DVDs or mounting images etc.

Daemon Tools Lite

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.

Warning: Comes bundled with an optional adware toolbar. You will need to deselect this option during installation

CDBurnerXP

CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.

Ashampoo Burning Studio Free

Ashampoo released their Burning Software free for use for all users. Ashampoo Burning Studio Free is a full featured CD/DVD/Blu-Ray burning suite that enables you to create data, music, video and audio discs. You can also create backups that span across multiple discs, rip music tracks from Audio CDs and create or burn disc images in ISO or BIN/CUE format.

DeepBurner

DeepBurner is an advanced and extremely powerful CD and DVD burning package. It even removes the hassle of making autoruns, creating and printing your own labels and booklets. Burn any data, copy any disc, make backups, create astonishing photo albums, make ISO images and Video DVDs with this very easy to handle professional software

ImgBurn

ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application.

ImgBurn can write most types of CD / DVD images and it supports all the latest writers (including booktype / bitsetting on many of the major ones – i.e. BenQ, LiteOn, NEC, Plextor, Sony). You can even use ImgBurn to erase / format your rewritable media!