If you don’t manually enter the output format, it converts the MDF file into the ISO format and uses the source file’s name as the output file’s name. And as you can see from the above screenshot, it also outputs details such as a progress-bar as well. It’s a console (command-line) based tool but is extremely simple and user friendly as well. Converts MDF images into ISO, CUE, BIN, TOC and DAT formats.

So just to make sure that this tool works with the latest versions of “.mdf” files, I just downloaded the latest version of “Alcohol 120%”, created a disc image of “Ubuntu 11.10″ (in Windows 7) and tried to convert it into the “.iso” format, and it worked flawlessly. I think that “.mdf” format is developed by “Alcohol 120%” developers. Other than from “.mdf” to ISO format, it also converts into other formats such as CUE, TOC, BIN and DAT as well. But, if you have limited disk spaces left etc and don’t really need that type of features, it can come in handy though). Because when you create a “.mdf” disc image, that image will usually be bigger than the actual size of the disc (perhaps it contains some error recover data which can be useful at times. Not just that, but by converting those images, you can actually save some disk space too (after converting to “ISO” format for instance). If you use the CD/DVD burning tool called “Alcohol 120%” or “Daemon Tools” heavily in MS Windows and has a reasonable amount of disc images created in the “MDF/MDS” format but just figured out that you cannot burn them in GNU/Linux (say that you recently switched over to Ubuntu Linux! :D) as with “ISO” disc images, then this small, yet extremely useful tool called “mdf2iso” might save your day -).

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