DAEMON Tools (short for Disk And Execution MONitor tools) is a virtual drive and optical disc authoring program for Microsoft Windows. It can be acquired for free through the 'Lite' version, but the 'Pro Standard', 'Pro Advanced' and 'Net' versions are to be purchased.
DAEMON Tools was originally a successor of Generic SafeDisc emulator and incorporated all of its features. The program claims to be able to defeat most copy protection schemes such as SafeDisc and SecuROM. It is currently compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows
8. DAEMON Tools has a special mode for proper operation of copies of
discs with advanced protection (SafeDisc, SecuRom and LaserLock, CDCOPS,
StarForce and Protect CD), which are used on some discs with games.
The default file format of DAEMON Tools is Media Data eXtended (MDX). MDX is a disc image file format similar to MDS/MDF images. It supports all of MDS/MDF format features except that all data is in one monolithic file only. The files of these types bear the filename extension of .mdx.
MDX file contains metadata of original media - specifically the main
physical parameters of disc, such as layer breaks, sessions, tracks and
other. It could be described as being an archive file containing all
data from a CD/DVD. It also supports data compression. MDX file
includes the magic number "MEDIA DESCRIPTOR" at the beginning of the
file.
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