UIF, or Universal Image Format, is an image format for backing up to CD/DVD. Its advantages are that it supports compression, encryption and password protection to keep your data safe.
.UIF format is getting popular, especially on BitTorrent downloads. There are two ways to open contents of a .UIF file: the first method uses a trial copy of MagicISO, which has certain restrictions – it can only open UIF files upto 300MB, and the software itself is trial and expires after a few days.
The second method uses UIF to ISO converter, a free tool to convert the UIF file to ISO, which you can then burn to a DVD or extract the contents to separate files.
#1: Open UIF with MagicISO
Download MagicISO. After installing MagicISO, open it, click File > Open and select the UIF file. Once the file is loaded, select ‘Extract’ option by right clicking the UIF file. When you are asked for the location to extract the file, enter your preferred location and click OK.
#2: Open UIF files (UIF2ISO converter)
This method is slightly more complex, so use it only if you need to extract files larger than 300MB (which cannot be opened by the trial version of MagicISO).
For Windows:
- Download UIF2ISO converter. Extract the downloaded zip file to get a folder of the same name.
- Double-click the file named uif2iso (with a label “application”, having an icon).
- In the window that comes up, locate the .uif file you want to extract and click “Open”.
- In the window that comes up, choose a name and click “Save”.
- A confirmation window will come up – hit enter to finish the process.
- The converted .iso file will be in the same location as the original .uif file.
- Download and install IZArc.
- Open Computer and navigate to where you saved the .iso file (which is where you saved the original .uif file also).
- Right-click the file and click IZArc > Extract to .\
where stands for your file. - You will now have the files extracted into a folder of the same name as the .iso file, in the same location.
- Instead of extracting files, if you need to burn a disc from the files, download and install ImgBurn (freeware). Open ImgBurn and burn the ISO file to a disc to get a disc with all the contents of the original .UIF file.
For Mac OS X:
Download and use uif2iso4mac.
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Thanks! This worked great!
thanks very much budddy……………
Thanks a million buddy. A great work done by you.
Great job! Those who create *.uif files – damned freaks.
Congratulations for the post, its very easy anda work well….thanks
mate, good work!
thanks a lot and yes i agree magiciso_is_shit
thanks!!!
but im curious…I converted the .UIF to ISO fine, but i wasnt able to extract the ISO with my normal ISO extraction programs (PeaZIP or ExtractNOW)…it only worked with the IZArc you mentioned…any reason?
thanks again!!
None that I know of, but thanks for letting me know, I can refer someone with similar problems to IZArc now
thanks a lot… i really wanted this…
thanx for all this effort you rellay number one
Thanks for the info about uif2iso, it was very useful.
Regards
Paul
Nice. PowerISO and MagicISO are a pain with their proprietary formats. Thanks for the UIF2ISO link and there is another DAA2ISO at http://aluigi.org/mytoolz.htm.
Good snipet… It works… Thanks a lot
Flippin brilliant…..
after I’ve struggled for hours with various software, this little ‘UIF2ISO’ program did it in seconds. Who needs the ripoff software venders. Well Done Techzilo
Thank you very very much! This helped me a lot!!!
Thanks a lot, This was really helpful. IZArc worked without a problem!
Thanks loads for this – the Izarc method didn’t work ( I kept geting an ‘unsupported file type’ message) but gburner was really easy
i have downloaded a uif file that contains e-books that are related to my field which is electrical engineering. i followed your steps here and now, i can use the books. you really are a great help. thanks a lot.
use this program on a mac.. simple and free
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/27409
Following is the steps to open uif files,
1. Run gBurner.
2. click “file”->”open”
3. Choose gbi file.
4. Click open button.
5. Click “burn” to burn the file to a CD/DVD disc.
6. Or Click “extract†to extract the uif file.
I’m sooo grateful, dis worked very well.
Thanks a million times.