How to Convert an .MDF File to .ISO

anonymous Says:
August 18th, 2007

Awesome! Thanks!

anonymous Says:
September 02nd, 2007

CD Burner XP pro can convert .bin, and other files, to iso through the GUI.

anonymous Says:
September 23rd, 2007

Thanks for the .mdf info. It answered my question. :-)

anonymous Says:
September 28th, 2007

i'd appreciate if u would tell me how to change MDF file into BIN file, thank u.

anonymous Says:
October 14th, 2007

yeah he did. just rename it .bin, it worked fine for me because I have my programs up and installed because of it...

anonymous Says:
October 19th, 2007

Theres a program I've been using for ages called "BIN to ISO converter"

david Says:
October 22nd, 2007

Yes, but this is how to do it for free.

anonymous Says:
October 28th, 2007

thanx for help

anonymous Says:
November 14th, 2007

winiso New version: 5.3 Will convert .BIN to .ISO and .ISO to .BIN in one click.

david Says:
November 14th, 2007

I prefer magic iso, that is the reason why I posted it. It's simply a better piece of software.

anonymous Says:
November 23rd, 2007

U can use DVD Decrypter to burn the MDF files.

anonymous Says:
November 23rd, 2007

I like it when they put onions on my cheese then on my finger tips to messase and eat onions

anonymous Says:
November 23rd, 2007

i know i like it to when that happens

anonymous Says:
November 24th, 2007

can you tell me how i can rename MDF to BIN?

david Says:
November 24th, 2007

To rename a file in windows, view this tutorial.

anonymous Says:
November 28th, 2007

help. i have changed the mdf file to bin as suggested and i used power ISO to change it to an ISO file but i still can't extract the files to play on my PC, what am i doing wrong

anonymous Says:
December 05th, 2007

You can change it from .mdf to a .BIN then use ISOBuster as well

anonymous Says:
December 26th, 2007

Do you have to rename the mds file to cue as well?

anonymous Says:
January 09th, 2008

Thank you very much! It helped me a lot!

anonymous Says:
January 30th, 2008

I use iso buster.open mdf with iso buster in list select top listing right click select extract raw bin/iso select folder to dl to click ok.it will extract to a bin file and make cue sheet .burn extracted file or mount.

anonymous Says:
February 13th, 2008

UltraISO easily makes conversion between different images

anonymous Says:
February 26th, 2008

thanks a million

anonymous Says:
March 02nd, 2008

i cant use this fuking magic iso

anonymous Says:
March 07th, 2008

OMG ppl i renamed my .mdf file to .BIN how to convert it back to .mdf original file?

david Says:
March 08th, 2008

Simply rename it again anonymous - March 07th, 2008. lol

anonymous Says:
March 08th, 2008

I Copy a PS2 Game Using Alcohol 120%, when it copied I get MDF file. How can i burn and play it PS2?

anonymous Says:
March 19th, 2008

im trying to rip this dvd onto my laptop
could you give me a software that can do this ?

anonymous Says:
March 23rd, 2008

you know you can just rename it to .ISO

anonymous Says:
March 23rd, 2008

The problem with Magic ISO and some of the other copying programs is that some of the new copy protection on legit software will disable you from using it if Magic ISO and other programs like it are installed. These programs install and run at kernel mode level.

anonymous Says:
March 25th, 2008

Hello

anonymous Says:
March 27th, 2008

there is no '.mdf' with myfile and I already showed hidden file and folders
please help

anonymous Says:
April 09th, 2008

With PowerISO there's no need to change the file name. Just open this tiny app, browse for the .MDF file (not the .MDS) select it, and do a "Save as". PowerISO recognises .MDF files (from Alcohol120%), and when you do the "Save as" it saves the file in .ISO by default.

If you just want to burn the image it is even more easy, just browse for the .MDF file and click the "Burn" icon in the app.

If you want to add files to the original image file is cool too, do it in the app interface before you do the "Save as" operation. If your image is a bootble image it will still be after the procedure, no worry.

If think UltraISO and MagicISO work the same way, but I'm not shore.

Stylus [PT]

anonymous Says:
April 20th, 2008

This is all shite. Tossers that use anything other than Nero and Nero recognised files are arseholes and wankers

anonymous Says:
April 24th, 2008

I find it funny how the guy above my comment has clearly answered his own comment with another but pretended to be someone else... nice xD

anonymous Says:
April 29th, 2008

Cine vorbeşte română?

anonymous Says:
April 29th, 2008

Eu nu sunt anonymous!
Eu sunt Ady!
Sunt din Romania-Europa!

anonymous Says:
May 05th, 2008

Thanks dude!

anonymous Says:
May 10th, 2008

Beware, often mdf images are ripped from protected discs using special techniques to preserve the protection, if you convert it to iso keep the original mdf, just in case the programs inside don't work anymore due to the missing copyprotection!

anonymous Says:
May 28th, 2008

as

anonymous Says:
May 30th, 2008

I think MDF is a good file format.

anonymous Says:
June 05th, 2008

>>I think MDF is a good file format.
Who cares what do you think and which format is better, the question is how to convert MDF to ISO.
Better for free, and 100% correct without burning!

anonymous Says:
June 08th, 2008

OKAY PEOPLE, THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT. YOU'LL NEED ALCOHOL 120%. YOU HAVE 2 FILES: MDF AND MDS. MOUNT THE ONLY ONE THAT IT ALLOWS YOU TO ONTO YOUR VIRTUAL DRIVE. THEN CREATE AN ISO FILE FROM THAT DRIVE. THEN BURN THE ISO FILE ONTO A CD.

anonymous Says:
June 09th, 2008

I found a way by using alcohol to mount the mdf then use winiso to make an iso of the image, then delete then original mdf and mount the iso, iso are also much smaller in size

anonymous Says:
June 09th, 2008

Oh, maybe i should have read the post before my previous one haha

anonymous Says:
June 10th, 2008

this is the programm is very fucking)

anonymous Says:
June 20th, 2008

how do u use magicISO

anonymous Says:
June 25th, 2008

y dont they just zip the file instead of changing the format and make people feeling sick to had a stupid time on changing or convert the file from mdf to iso or bla2..

anonymous Says:
July 01st, 2008

I got some good tips form here thank you all and some were pretty funny. I am looking into computers as a Job and I like to keep up to date on all the new stuff coming out. Pluse the new file types make it hard to Run my PSX emulator. but the best way I have found to deal with MDF files is to get 120% and mount on Vert drive. then make the Emulator run from CD and put the Vert as you drive. works better that way and also you can just run programs off the Vert.

Thanks for leting me Post
Signed:
Nwahs Dryb

anonymous Says:
July 16th, 2008

thanks a lot if it wasn't for you i wouldnt burn a file -.-' Thanks dude

anonymous Says:
July 19th, 2008

Bin2Iso is free and will convert bin to iso. Small program with NO install. Just run it from the exe.

anonymous Says:
July 31st, 2008

i've downloaded a game which has a MDF and a MDS file. how do i get it work using Nero? i'm trying to avoid mounting the files, any suggestions how to convert the files and burn it.

aaditya Says:
August 02nd, 2008

i just downloaded Silent hill 3, i extracted it through winrar, nw i gt an mdf file of 3.33gb and mds file of 5 kb!! when the original winrar file was 2gb! nw i used poweriso and saved it, it became a magic iso document, i instructed magic iso t convert the magic iso file which was approx 2gb into iso, nw its converted to iso but its 1.5 gb and nero can read it nw, the problem is the size keeps on shrinking and i am going crazy wid all this format bullshit!! plz help, need it badly!

aaditya Says:
August 02nd, 2008

and its a PS2 game!! so plz help, will really appreciate it if anyone could giv sum support!

aaditya Says:
August 02nd, 2008

i just downloaded alcohol 120% and cracked it, nw plz if someone could help me with this method?

anonymous Says:
August 07th, 2008

Yes Magic ISO worked perfect for me.. I already had it but didn't know it could convert images. i converted a psx MDF image file into bin/cue with it..
Just run Magic Iso and in the Tools tab you'll find Convert. when i tried to convert it into an ISO, for some reason the Iso did not work, so i converted it into BIN. Now its working fine.

anonymous Says:
September 21st, 2008

??? why do you need to convert the ifle when you only can change the extension to .iso???

Works for me anyway !

anonymous Says:
September 21st, 2008

検討に値する。

anonymous Says:
September 23rd, 2008

よく練られた。

anonymous Says:
September 30th, 2008

ok so can u rename .mdf to .bin and use bin2boot to convert the .bin to a .cdi? trying to make a cdi image. would this work?

anonymous Says:
October 10th, 2008

programme: Bin2Iso - very easy to convert bin to iso except i don't think its compatible with vista. i'ld post a link but its seemingly not allowed... just do a google search for 'bin to iso' and click on the first result - theres a link to the download from that page.

An answer to your query in the OP

"At this point there is no easy .BIN to .ISO and if you do know post a comment."

anonymous Says:
October 10th, 2008

@ALL: U ARE NOOBS

anonymous Says:
October 12th, 2008

just rename the file to iso !... its that simple and it works

anonymous Says:
October 16th, 2008

An old article, but nevertheless, very resourceful. Thank you!

anonymous Says:
October 16th, 2008

I used MagicISO to convert .mdf file to ISO and also to extract the file and worked fine.

anonymous Says:
October 19th, 2008

thx i did got a mdf file but it did need to put in my cd/dvd drive so i coul not mount it and i could not burn it BUT YOU SAVED MY DAY

anonymous Says:
October 19th, 2008

full all idiots, lamers

anonymous Says:
October 22nd, 2008

this guy looks like a fucking tool. lame. congratulations on your 2 steps you said. damn if i knew it was that easy to be a guru and get priaed on the internet i woudl've created a similar tutorial, how to save a .png file in photoshop. ready?
-open photoshop
-open your picture
-hit save as, select .png
hope that helps

score

anonymous Says:
October 26th, 2008

Wow, just use PowerISO. You don't even have to burn the ISO. You can just extract the contents of the MDF file to a folder. No Burning needed.

anonymous Says:
October 27th, 2008

Great Bro ! 10x a lot !

anonymous Says:
October 31st, 2008

Wow dude 1 little question from a random guy helped me so much! Looks like i'm not gonna lose my job after all! Thank you so much!!!

anonymous Says:
November 08th, 2008

I got a great idea for all you guys wanting to convert from this mdf shite. Why don't you pull your dicks outta your mom's aresholes eh?

anonymous Says:
January 01st, 2009

all you need is the open source bin2iso which has been out for years now.

anonymous Says:
January 04th, 2009

winiso does bin to iso

anonymous Says:
January 21st, 2009

www.crystalidea.com/anytoiso

anonymous Says:
February 06th, 2009

very nice

anonymous Says:
February 17th, 2009

ive found that you can directly do ".iso" instead of ".bin" on the mdf file and it converts by itself

anonymous Says:
February 27th, 2009

THANK YOU (anonymous - April 10th, 200 for the PowerISO "Save as" suggestion...worked great (also worked for changing an .nrg file to an .iso)! I had been trying to change the .mdf and .nrg files to .iso by using the "convert" feature under "tools" menu, but an error msg appeared that read "files are identical." But opening the .mdf file and then using "save as" .iso worked perfect. Gracias.

anonymous Says:
March 13th, 2009

Thanks a bunch... ummaaahhh

anonymous Says:
March 24th, 2009

Use IzArc which is totally free, and it has an option for .MDF to .ISO conversion - it works!!

anonymous Says:
April 11th, 2009

do u have a video which explains this convertion

anonymous Says:
April 25th, 2009

MagicISO has an option called Convert... in the file menu. No need to change the file name or anything!

anonymous Says:
May 05th, 2009

god, people are such idiots. if the program doesn't allow u to use it because of a trial etc. then you simply find a keygen, serial, patch, or cracked version and google about something youre not sure about...why don't people have any knowledge, its ridiculous ...its so easy but people make it harder for themselvez by thinking stupid

anonymous Says:
May 15th, 2009

you cant call people idiots, i'm sure at some point you didn't have the knowledge either,unless you woke up one day knowing everything about coputers and software( I doubt it) so stop flaming, everyone isn't an expert,that's what this forum is for

anonymous Says:
June 11th, 2009

ok, i have an mdf. file without an mds. how do i open/extract/mount/do anything with it plz plz plz help me!

anonymous Says:
June 12th, 2009

can u help me ? i want to make my mdf file to an iso but i tried to do it with the way that u said..making the extension .bin..but i cant do the extendion like this..can u inform me how i can do it??

anonymous Says:
June 17th, 2009

What if Files to big, in one case ive tryed to conevert a game us Magic Iso and its said files to large, whats the deal? ...
thx

anonymous Says:
June 28th, 2009

hello. I have read through, plus read other pages of info. I still have a question. My downloaded game has 4 folders, each with 1x mdf and 1 x mds. I have both power and magic iso. I right click, I get options of "add to image file" or add to "game"2.1.daa (for poweriso). Magiciso says add to image file or add to "game"2.1.uif.
Which do I do? Or do I go to the application and mount from there? What do I do with the 4 game folders? I am that confused I don't even know what questions to ask!
Thanks heaps, kaeri

anonymous Says:
July 15th, 2009

thanks , that helped me so much! GREAT !

anonymous Says:
July 16th, 2009

i use ashampoo it converts anything to iso

anonymous Says:
August 20th, 2009

AnyToISO Converter works like a charm

anonymous Says:
August 20th, 2009

this is the best comment so far...stated by annonymous on April 10th -
"anonymous - April 10th, 2008
With PowerISO there's no need to change the file name. Just open this tiny app, browse for the .MDF file (not the .MDS) select it, and do a "Save as". PowerISO recognises .MDF files (from Alcohol120%), and when you do the "Save as" it saves the file in .ISO by default."

If you alreayd have powerISO, open the program, go to file --> open, select the .mdf file, and choose save as... . Like said above, it automatically saves it as an .ISO, a file format everyone seems to be familiar with.

From the .ISO format, do what you'd like (mount with powerISO, in my opinion). Enjoy.

anonymous Says:
August 24th, 2009

say the file is pretend.mdf, all you have to do is rename it using windows to pretend.iso, it works believe me, no need for poweriso or anything else to convert it

anonymous Says:
September 08th, 2009

^^^Thats like me taking a iso file and added .mp3. Stop teaching people to make fake file.

anonymous Says:
September 09th, 2009

you can just rename the .mdf to .iso and then burn it!!!
I just did

anonymous Says:
September 12th, 2009

excellent man!!! thnx a lotttttt

anonymous Says:
September 13th, 2009

renaming to iso worked for me ,
thanks

anonymous Says:
September 24th, 2009

Thanks

anonymous Says:
September 30th, 2009

Great help. thank you

anonymous Says:
October 06th, 2009

I have 2 files in the folder, an .mdf and a .mds. Is there a way I can convert those to just 1 .iso so I can burn to a cd/dvd?

anonymous Says:
October 22nd, 2009

@ anonymous - October 06th, 2009
what about reading the main post...

anonymous Says:
October 27th, 2009

@anonymous - October 23rd, 2009

the main post only states the .mdf file, i want to know about both .mdf AND .mds. and if its possible take the TWO files and convert it into ONE .iso

anonymous Says:
October 30th, 2009

For iso files you only need the mdf
The mds file is useless - it holds parameters that iso files can't store.
Forget the mds file already!

anonymous Says:
November 08th, 2009

This is really easy - Before you download anything, check the file type. If it says .mdf or some other smegma, then don't download it. Jesus what utter losers! Illegally download a file then run out of brain cells in knowing what to do with it. How the hell do you know it's not a bundle of viruses. For fuck's sake........

anonymous Says:
November 19th, 2009

We have RAR, we have ISO, we have ZIP.
Nou MDF? WHY???

anonymous Says:
December 10th, 2009

Jesus wept, what a barrel of crap!
This is why decent forums only allow members to post!

anonymous Says:
December 22nd, 2009

poweriso can extract mdf files..
it works..
2nd alternative, use IZArc to convert mdf to iso..
it works 2..

anonymous Says:
December 24th, 2009

hehe thanx

anonymous Says:
December 29th, 2009

SUPER!

anonymous Says:
January 04th, 2010

this one takes time but download 7zip and extract the .mdf then use burnaware to turn those files into an iso file then mont or burn using burnaware

anonymous Says:
January 11th, 2010

Daemon Tools can do the job

anonymous Says:
January 26th, 2010

powerISO is the best mult-purpose converter around

anonymous Says:
February 02nd, 2010

this tread has comments spanning near 4 years its a fuckin saga

anonymous Says:
February 20th, 2010

just found this thread and felt like continuing the saga. nothing else to contribute. (renaming the extension worked for me)

anonymous Says:
February 23rd, 2010

Check it out...ImgBurn supports .mds files and works in Vista. Usually a .mdf file is a produced/uploaded with a .mds file, like .bin uses .cue.

anonymous Says:
March 07th, 2010

hey thanks its working

anonymous Says:
March 14th, 2010

Hey do you know how to make .Elf files out of these ISO files? i got a PS2 Emulator that i need to test

anonymous Says:
March 27th, 2010

bin2iso wil convert, well, bin files to iso files.

anonymous Says:
April 05th, 2010

how do I use a patch file, after I have mounted a file using poweriso?

anonymous Says:
April 07th, 2010

Ok, after much hassle, I was finally able to do convert bin to iso. Thanks to all who helped this thread. but now once iso is mounted, what do i do? How do I play/extract the files from iso image? What program do I use? My mounted iso image is audio cd. The cue file has tacks numbers like track 1, 2 and so on. please advice as to 'what' program to use to play/extract the audio tracks from iso image. I tried alzip on iso and iso gets converted back to bin where from I started??? I am going in circles! All I want to do is extract the tracks from bin/iso and save them as mp3 so i can play on my ipod. Thanks.

anonymous Says:
April 07th, 2010

Steps: Originally downloaded file was a zip file. I unzipped it with Alzip and got bin/cue files. Then with Alcohol 120 I converted them to mds/mdf files. Then with PowerISO converted them to iso files. And now if I was to use Alzip to open ISo I get back bin file??? I am back to where I started from? I am going between bin and iso files! Now I have two separate versions/files - bin and iso. My question is which/what program I use to see/play the audio tracks from this bin/iso image and eventually extract and save these audio tracks as mp3 files? How do I acheive this? If I click extract on this iso file in PowerISo, I get bin file! If I use Alzip on iso then also I get bin file! This is what (bin file) I had to begin with! So how can I or what program I use once I mount iso in powerISo to extract the audio which is in these bin/iso files and save them as mp3 is my question. Can someone please help. Thanks.

anonymous Says:
April 08th, 2010

what type of file is it?

anonymous Says:
April 08th, 2010

Files are audio files as far as i know. Original download is zip. When i unzip it with alzip, i get .bin and .cue files. The .cue files says track 1, 2 and so on

anonymous Says:
April 08th, 2010

In fact, this is what one of the .cue file says :

CDTEXTFILE "MOON 01.CDT"
FILE "Moon 01.bin" BINARY
TRACK 01 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:40:17
TRACK 03 AUDIO
INDEX 01 07:37:54
TRACK 04 AUDIO
INDEX 01 13:41:33

And .bin file name is Moon.bin

anonymous Says:
April 08th, 2010

Sorry, name of the .bin file is Moon 01.bin (and not Moon.bin)

anonymous Says:
May 27th, 2010

there are far too many stupid people in this world

anonymous Says:
June 10th, 2010

Thanks for your help, it was very very help full for me. I did not know about MDF and BIN but I did get help from this site.
The Winiso New Version 5.3 is best, but u must register this software. thanks again and bye bye

anonymous Says:
July 24th, 2010

im using magic ISO to convert mdf file to iso. it worked well on two files bt now im trying to convert file size over 4 gb and its not working. progress stops at 4%. c may i have an idea how it will work???

anonymous Says:
August 09th, 2010

bchunk does a good job of converting bin/cue to iso. To create the cue simply create a text file with following:
FILE "sampleimage.bin" BINARY
TRACK 01 MODE1/2352
INDEX 01 00:00:00

anonymous Says:
September 19th, 2010

use bin2iso to convert

anonymous Says:
September 21st, 2010

its awesome dude its really work thanx for your great help

anonymous Says:
September 23rd, 2010

cheers thanks for the tip.

anonymous Says:
October 02nd, 2010

Hahaha, disregard that, I suck cocks

anonymous Says:
November 04th, 2010

Blog Guy is hot and fine as helllllllllllllll!!!!

Yes, I am gay!

anonymous Says:
November 20th, 2010

I like to wear thong leotards but that doesn't necessarily make me GAY

anonymous Says:
December 03rd, 2010

sureya thureste

anonymous Says:
December 06th, 2010

But my question is how do I change my MDF music file to Midi file ????

anonymous Says:
December 06th, 2010

I just renamed .bin to .iso.

anonymous Says:
December 06th, 2010

just rename the file ti .iso very easy !!!

anonymous Says:
December 06th, 2010

Thanks sir...:-)

anonymous Says:
December 10th, 2010

thanks buddy i really appreciate your help in this

anonymous Says:
December 10th, 2010

and the saga continues, long live the king of idiots...

for the dude that wanted to get mp3 files out of a mdf disc image.. burn that with alcohol, and the copy the disc using windows media player, selecting format file .mp3, you could do it in so many other ways with different programs, but God.. I'll leave it for anyone else to continue the saga... (lol)

anonymous Says:
December 10th, 2010

and yes.. I listen to barbara streisand and elton jhon and that doesn't make me gay either.. (tough I never tought about the leotard's stuff, it's an idea I have to explore furthermore, like the dude up there)

anonymous Says:
December 24th, 2010

fucking retards haha

anonymous Says:
January 01st, 2011

So what is the mds file for? If I convert/rename/save as/ or what ever else everyone says you have to do to the mdf file then what do I do with the mds file?

anonymous Says:
January 01st, 2011

I use winrar to extract iso files.
Never tried to use it to extract bin of mdf but I'm gonna give it a try.

anonymous Says:
January 07th, 2011

The saga continues...

anonymous Says:
February 15th, 2011

.mdf file can easily be changed to .iso by just renaming it but what about .mds file im not able to extract it pls helpp....

anonymous Says:
February 20th, 2011

Yes, 20th February 2011 and the .MDF Saga keeps going on...

anonymous Says:
April 07th, 2011

This thread is so full of win!

@ the people struggling to extract files--Here's a novel idea for you. Maybe just burn the damn image to disc LIKE YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO. My god, I've never seen so many noobs put themselves through so many changes just because they want to do things differently. Hey, Mr. "I've got my image converted but how do I extract the audio to mp3"! Again, it's not rocket science, just burn the damn image to disc LIKE YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO. Then just rip the CD in media player.

FFS, four years on and the crisis continues................

anonymous Says:
April 26th, 2011

ive found an even easier way without having to renmae the files then convert them. Download Alcohol 52% and you can mount the mds files straight onto it and run them. Works for me everytime .

anonymous Says:
May 10th, 2011

nice work..

anonymous Says:
May 24th, 2011

Um I have an mdf file that's 5kb does anyone know of a free program I can convert it to iso with?

anonymous Says:
May 24th, 2011

Oops not kb, gb

anonymous Says:
May 27th, 2011

DO NOT USE MAGICISO!!!

I installed it and then uninstalled. It left some crap in my right click menu in windows explorer. Mo I have to go into the registry to hack it out. What a POS.

anonymous Says:
May 29th, 2011

what is iso?

anonymous Says:
May 29th, 2011

"What a POS"

How can I convert POS to ISO?

anonymous Says:
May 29th, 2011

Open it with winrar then extract the files then add them to an iso file

anonymous Says:
May 29th, 2011

^using power iso to add to iso file

anonymous Says:
November 11th, 2011

Hello, MDF files are for stupid MuDaFuckaz, ISO files are for Intelligent Sophisticated Overlords. Thank you. Bye bye...

anonymous Says:
December 01st, 2012

as said before, simply rename the .mdf file extension to .iso and all should work in ALL players
OR go 1 step further and extract the iso.to it's core file

anonymous Says:
January 01st, 2013

Thank you SOOOOO Mush u already helped me