I use the commercial PowerISO, which has no problems, now, even with the native MagicDisc formatting…

…that is, unless it’s also compressed by MagicDisc.

In other words, as long as MagicDisc is used to create a vanilla ISO file, then PowerISO (and other ISO readers, expanders) can see/read/use it just fine. But if the MagicDisc-created ISO was also compressed by MagicDisc, then PowerISO (and no other ISO reader) can read/use it.

Enter this little MagicDisc virtual DVD/CD product. It will uncompress a MagicDisc-compressed ISO so that the likes of PowerISO can use it.

One might ask why I just don’t use Magic products for everything; and the answer is that PowerISO is really superior. It really is. Unfortunately (for me), a lot of people like Magic products instead of PowerISO… and that’s fine… except when they take that extra step after creating their ISOs of also compressing them. Then they venture into the world of non-standard formats which such as PowerISO cannot read.

So, anyone using a non-Magic product for all their ISO stuff still needs this free little utility on their machine so that if they stumble onto an ISO that has been compressed by a Magic user, one can use this free little utility to first uncompress it so that PowerISO and other products can see/read/use it.

Plus, as long as this little utility is sitting in the system tray, it pays to just use it for all virtually-mounted discs rather than the virtual disc mounter that’s, for example, built-in to PowerISO. I mean, as long as it’s sitting there in the system tray, might as well let it do something other than just be a standby for whenever/if-ever one might need to uncompress an ISO, right?

So that’s how I use it… and for nothing else. It’s a terrific little utility to have, therefore, no matter what ISO maker software one normally uses. This little utility is indispensible in that way.