Creating and Burning ISO files under Windows for free

One of the biggest issues I have with Windows is that there is no easy, and cheap, way to create ISO files from CDROMs. Under Linux and other UNIXs you can just run the ‘dd’ command and create an ISO file of the CDROM - But under Windows there seems to be a lack of such functionality.

That was until I found the ISO Recorder tool from Alex Fienman, which works much like a Windows Power Toy. The software works on Windows XP and Windows 2003 (including 64 bit versions). There is a command line version of it that is supposed to work for Windows Vista as well, but I don’t have an Vista installation to try it out on.