Someone reviewed v on Jul 5, 2022

Pros: 555

Cons: 555

Bottom Line: 555

stisev reviewed v8.00 on Apr 9, 2007

The best program for floppy images.

It lost 2 stars because ALL settings are stored in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WinImage and there's no way to store it locally, like in an .ini file.

A damn shame. I wish this app was portable.

bekaye reviewed v8.00 on Oct 21, 2005

Excellent program. I've been a registered user since version 6. I bought the program to work with floppy images. I now use it to to edit ISO images. To me, the value of the program has far exceeded its purchase cost.

thezelda reviewed v8.00 on Oct 21, 2005

Excellent program. From ISOs, to DVD ISOS, to excellent floppy writing support, this program is superior, inexpensive and the author is an honest person who doesn't invalidate legit. licenses like FlashFXP. 2 thumbs up. Gawd, that was a super igornamus comment.

deadmonkey reviewed v8.00 on Oct 20, 2005

Excellent program. Does what it says it will do and does it well. I have tried many other tools but nothing has matched WinImage yet.

sn0wflake reviewed v8.00 on Oct 20, 2005

gawd21: So what? You're not the only person in the world. WinImage has other uses besides being a floppy utility. It's like saying that a certain Mac app sucks because you use Windows.
Lame comment.

Banquo reviewed v8.00 on Oct 20, 2005

gawd21, whether or not you use a floppy drive has nothing to do with the quality of this program. In fact why are you even reviewing it when you obviously don't use it. This program is actually very useful even for people who don't have floppy drives. You can use it to create disk images to mount in VMware or Virtual PC. WinImage is one of my must have programs, I used it today in fact. It supports CD and DVD images also, and works very well. I've never had any issues with it. In any case whether or not you believe many people still do use floppy disks. Try thinking next time before you post nonsense.

gawd21 reviewed v8.00 on Oct 20, 2005

Not one of our servers or workstations even have a floppy drive. It's so dated that I don't even know anyone personally that still uses them.

tvadakia reviewed v7.09h Pre-Release on Sep 16, 2005

DIRKES, most corporate businesses use floppies in their IT as an effecient and purposeful tool for diagnostics, checkups, and much more. Floppies are far from dead, except for a percentage of home users.

Also, WinImage can manipulate CD and DVD image files as well.

Invaluble tool.

oofki reviewed v7.09e Pre-Release on Jul 27, 2005

Well DIRKES, I am a computer tech and I still use them at work. I am sure lots of other people do too. But it isnt just for fdd's its for making, reading, and editing, floppy and cd/dvd images. Its a great program, always has been.

gvollant reviewed v7.09e Pre-Release on Jul 26, 2005

Tokar, I agree that on 7.0 (and until 7.09c), the extraction progress indicator was not good : it was updated only after extracting a file, so if you extracted a very big file, it was not updated before the file was terminated.

With 7.09e, the progress bar is more often updated.

Banquo reviewed v7.09d Pre-Release on Jul 25, 2005

Dirkes, sounds like you have no idea what you are talking about. Have you even used this program? If not don't try to review it. Anyway, enough about that. This is an excellent imaging program, I've been using it for years. The addition of VHD hard disk image support is a wonderful feature. For those who use VirtualPC this is a great utility to have.

deadmonkey reviewed v7.09d Pre-Release on Jul 25, 2005

A must if you work with either Virtual PC or VMware for its virtual floppy disk creation.

This new version also adds support for Microsoft virtual hard disk format allowing the user to read/write a VHD (read only for NTFS partitions in a VHD) which is an excellent feature.

GeneralLeoFF reviewed v7.09d Pre-Release on Jul 25, 2005

great for archiving old dos games before the discs decay. we need to get on that before it is too late people.

also can we stop revewing this program low becose we think people should not be using floppies anymore? The prime use of this program is to image your old floppies (and if you have been using a computer for atleast the past 10 years you should have tons of them) so you no longer have to use them anymore and there contnt remains safe. Using a CD for that is not very ideal becose it does not preserve the original structure should you ever ened to transfer it back to a floppy.

DIRKES reviewed v7.09c Pre-Release on Jun 21, 2005

Who still uses disks in the today's time?
Perhaps now and then, but must i pay 30 US$ for this?
If i make a Image, I must use a DVD-ROM...or want you use 289 HD-floppys for this job :-))

Tokar reviewed v7.09b Pre-Release on May 11, 2005

UltraISO lets you insert stuff into CD Image files...
WinImage doesnt...

Same deal with modifying the boot sector.

Overall great image viewer...but i would like to modify images as well...

The extraction needs a better progress indicator...

oofki reviewed v7.09b Pre-Release on May 11, 2005

I use floppies, I am a computer tech and thing like Symantec Ghost Corp. and Cleanboot need to be on floppies, btw they did not use them in the stone age either.

hardgiant reviewed v7.09b Pre-Release on May 11, 2005

The only imager that supports 64 bit but I like ultra-iso better.

PS: These imaging software apps can be used for floppies but they can also be used to create cd and dvd iso's.

Ultra Iso can be used to create multi-boot cd's or dvd's.

jaelanicu reviewed v7.09a Pre-Release on Apr 8, 2005

A good program, but I notice that it's development is getting more slower since version 6. There are some diskette manipulation features which haven't been implemented yet, but it's focusing aways from it. Why?

Crypton reviewed v7.09a Pre-Release on Mar 8, 2005

"Bloody Hell: who uses floppies anymore, it's not the stone age anymore.

With cd/dvd and flash drives why bother with such old technology."

um, this software is great m8, as well as allowing you to edit and compile "floppy" images which you can use and apply to a CD making them bootable. Of course that assumes you know anything about creating bootable CD's, Anyways, this piece of software has made my life much easier since I can create a image and apply it in programs such as WinISO to make custom boot cd's including any tools I like to use, dos based virus scanners for easy scanning and cleaning without being in windows, hardware testing utilties, ect.. I have created a Bootable CD packed with around 650MB of tools I use on customers PC's which allows me to test problem computers. I have to give it a 5 as the software is straight forward and easy to use.

urbanriot reviewed v7.09a Pre-Release on Mar 7, 2005

It never ceases to amaze me the idiots that review software on this site... that people will give a piece of software that handles a task that people require, a negative review because it supports a task or technology they don't use.

This particular version works excellent for me, no noticeable problems.

I'm not sure if this is a public beta, I can't find it on the winimage home page.

hardgiant reviewed v7.09a Pre-Release on Mar 7, 2005

Bloody Hell: who uses floppies anymore, it's not the stone age anymore.

With cd/dvd and flash drives why bother with such old technology.

Banquo reviewed v6.41.6145 Beta on Sep 12, 2004

Lord, what the hell are you talking about? This IS a beta version, why do you say it should not be posted here? Good Grief. Anyway, very nice little program. I collect old computers and software so dealing with lots of floppy formats is a must. Five stars! :)

esprado reviewed v6.41.6141 Beta on Sep 1, 2004

Well, afore the unablility of changing files inside isos, it only works if file is the same size or shorter, it fails miserably in reading linux disks.
But a nice program to edit those 2.88 boot floppies.

-Lord- reviewed v6.30.6136 Beta on Jul 27, 2004

I have been using this application for years now. I have to give it a 4 for several reasons. For starters, it's not "beta-ware" anymore. This program is LONG past beta, and shouldn't be posted here. Secondly, while it does absolutely AWESOME jobs when it comes to floppy disk images et al, and does a pretty fantastic job at browsing through ISO and bin images, it does so pretty slowly compared to ISO buster and the other disk image management tools that are available. One of its limitations that I've found.... there is an option to modify ISO's and bins, by 'injecting' files into the image, thereby modifying the image and adding things that you may need before, say, burning a CD. I've had miserable luck injecting files into images.

Don't get me wrong, it's still a good program, and a 4 rating is no slouch. but with the above limitations, it doesn't deserve a 5, which it is very capable of achieving as long as all of its features work properly, and as long as they quit posting it to a beta site when it hasn't been a beta for over 7 years!

cjanoch reviewed v6.30.6135 Beta on Jul 27, 2004

I've registered and used this program for several years. Great little app... It's "Ghost" for diskettes! One one the best disk imagers I've ever found!

Dirk van Hoofen reviewed v6.30.6135 Beta on Jul 27, 2004

Easy to use. For students and pupils it was better, if the author create a "special" price, 30$ are to expensive for me, because I use it max. 5 times in a year.

Banquo reviewed v6.1 on Sep 12, 2002

I don't really use this for ISO images, though it is nice that it can do that. Making perfect backups of floppy disks is where this program really shines. It can even make PowerQuest VFD images which work with Connextix Virtual PC, which is a real time saver allowing you to boot from or install floppy based programs from the hard drive.

Works great as always, even with XP. Excellent program.

aalaap reviewed v6.0 on Oct 1, 2001

With programs like ISOBuster and CDMage around and available for free, I don't forsee much in store for this program. I know so many (including myself) who've abandoned using this "ISO extractor" (as that's what it can most popularly be used as), in favor of others. Still, I like this app because it looks good. Its a well written piece of code, and I always appreciate that. Take my app MySweetNix for example, ... ;-)

mjk reviewed v5.0.5002 Beta on Nov 25, 2000

If you have some ISO or BIN files around... get this util!