MagicISO is is no longer maintained since 2010. If you have MagicISO, you will own ISO extractor, ISO converter, ISO burner and ISO creator. You can use ISO files for creating back ups of your CDs or restore your CDs by burning back up ISO files. MagicISO can create ISO file from your CD/DVD driver. Usually, you have to burn an ISO file on a CD to extract its contents, but now you can simply open an ISO file in MagicISO. containing an exact binary copy of the original CDs. ISO file are images (duplicates) of complete CD/DVD disc. MagicISO is CD/DVD image utility that can extract, edit, create and burn ISO files. This tip is particularly useful if you have a CD/DVD burner on a Mac (or PC) and not a PC (or Mac) and you need to burn a disk image using the other machine. Hdiutil convert /path/imagefile.iso -format UDRW -o /path/convertedimage.dmg.