Than to open a mdf-file?

Often happens that after downloading the game, the program or the whole disk with the programs or the operating system, you, climbing into the folder with the downloaded files, you find in it not the usual installation files with the extension .exe and not winrar or winzip archives, And some completely obscure and unfamiliar files with a strange .mdf extension.

Do not worry and do not worry, you did not become a victim of scammers and downloaded exactly what you need. The fact is that the mdf-file is nothing more than a normal disk image. A disk image is, in a sense, a complete copy of a disk stored on the hard disk of the computer, convenient for fast writing to a blank disk or for instant mounting to a virtual disk.

The mdf format is one of the most common (along with iso) disk image recording formats. You will not have any difficulties with opening it if you have a minimum of software.

So, you downloaded, say, a game with one file, and the file format is mdf. To open it, you need any program that allows you to create and mount virtual disks. One such program is DaemonTools - a very powerful and at the same time easy-to-understand program. When you install it on your computer will automatically create one virtual drive. Run the program, select "file-open" in the main menu and find your mdf-file - it will be added to the list of images in the program window. Then click on it with the right mouse button and in the context menu select the item "Mount". Or you can do it simply: immediately find the game file and run it by double-clicking the mouse. If you have DaemonTools installed at that time, then automatically your file will be opened to them and mounted on a free virtual disk. After that, you can open it in "Explorer" and work with it, as with a regular disk.

It's also easy to write an mdf-file to a physical disk, only for this you will need almost any program for writing disks - almost all of them support the work with images. Just in the menu of the recording program, you will need to select "save an image or a saved project", find your game file again and press "record".

If you want to create a similar file is not difficult, if your disk writer supports the option "write to file." If not, then you 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 one is absolutely free, but does not support the write to disk function. After selecting and downloading the more suitable version of the program, install and run it. Select the "create image" option, then select the files that you would like to have in the disk image, and run the creation. Similarly, you can do with the whole disk in your drive. In the end, you can get his exact copy.

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 the game in the drive - just mount the image on a virtual disk and the game is deceived. After all, a virtual disk has nothing in its parameters (except that it does not exist) and does not differ from a regular CD or DVD, so the game "thinks" that everything is in order and quietly starts.