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Welcome to the DiscImageChef wiki.

DiscImageChef is a tool designed to handle different media dump formats (also called disc or disk images) and do common operations with them.

What do you want to do?

• Analyze a media dump
• Check how fast will DiscImageChef create hashes on my computer
• Get checksums or hashes from a dump
• Compare two media dumps
• Set which information will DiscImageChef send to you
• Create XML sidecar with metadata of a dump
• Decode media tags and print them
• Get information from a physical device
• Test physical device capabilities and create an XML report of them
• Create a media dump from a physical device
• Calculate entropy of a media dump
• Extract all files contained in a media dump
• Get a list of all formats supported
• Get a list of all supported physical devices
• Get a list of all supported character set encodings
• List all files contained in a media dump
• Show information about media inserted in a physical device
• Check readability of the media inserted in a physical device
• Get a hexadecimal print of a media dump sector or block
• See my own usage statistics
• Verify integrity of a media dump or its contents

What is supported by DiscImageChef?

• Media dump formats
• Partitioning schemes
• Filesystems
• Physical devices
• Checksum and hashes
• Known media tags
• Known sector/block tags

Frequently Asked Questions