What are .MDF and .MDS files?

[//siddhartha//]

Hi! Can you tell me what these extensions stand for? My friend dowloaded some software which have these extensions (I am almost sure that they are .MDF and .MDS) Plz tell me what to do with them... If they are used to write on to CDs or some form of archives, plz tell me the procedure to work with them or the softwares needed..

[Sukhdeep Singh]

Those are Alcohol 120% CD/DVD Image Files

http://www.alcohol-software.com/

[Zeeshan Quireshi]

the MDF file is the main file conatining the image of the Cd/DVD in binary format , n the MDS file stores information about the corresponding MDF file .

the MDF file will work perfectly fine even without the MDS , though Alcohol uses the MDS file to store come extra info .

[rakeshishere]

.MDF means

• Alcohol 120%'s proprietary iso file format, also used by Daemon tools and some other disk image emulators

.MDS means

.mds is a file extension for a small file associated with a .mdf disk image, used by programs such as alcohol 120% and DAEMON Tools

[phreak0ut]

Mounting cracked files to play games??!

[Third Eye]

Originally Posted by //siddhartha//

Plz tell me what to do with them..

You can mount those files with Daemon Tools.